Up to 40% less power consumption, no patents, easier colaboration and better security because of free software (cheaper to develop) - it's perfect for the mobile devices world.
Normies are not the only target.
In this update, developer explains, how is it going to succeed.
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fuck off Intel shill
If Risc-V can't do it cheaper it won't be used.
You don't understand the mobile world.
No player in it wants to give up even the tiniest bit of control, be it over the end user or other producers, there's just too much money to be made from it.
Wrong. Normies are the ONLY target. What the "enthusiast" market wants doesn't really matter and is certainly not enough to pull an entirely new platform. Have you ever looked at the current numbers of people that even use Desktop Linux? It's tiny. If these RISC things don't run Windows (and with that games etc.) they're already dead in the water for the desktop market, which is shrinking anyways. Also, ever heard of "wintel"?
Dude, I like risc as much as the other guy and don't even have any intel CPUs anymore, but it's just not realistic.
Also, what this guy said. Nobody cares about quality for the consumer. The truly important think is to squeeze every last penny out of them for the stockholders.
Ok, I see the point, but I hope Risc-V will be cheap enough, so we can afford it.
I know it sounds unrealistic, but we can make normies care more about security. I told my normie friend about EOMA68 and libre hardware generally and he told me "Wow cool, I could buy one and install GNU/Linux(yes I made him talk like that) on it, so I can have extra computer". He suprised me, because he uses an iPhone and all nonfree crap. Education is the key...
Normalfags are NOT a target. At all. Developers and manufacturers are.
I can set up a Linux desktop with some rice and a browser and make most people think it's Windows or Apple.
They already use Android in the billions, a FOSS product.
Normalfags are ignorant and apathetic, so just make them secure and FOSS fans without them even knowing. Make it the easy option. That is how to free the washed masses.
protip: convenient and popular proprietary applications will always cause people to reject FOSS. If you want to change people, you'll have to convince them that freedom is a very high priority.
LARP harder, any Apple user is going to see right through it because they care only about the brand and your setup clearly isn't official, and most Windows users will immediately notice that the UI isn't the same, that they can't run that one obscure program they use everyday, and that the options they like to change aren't in the same place or even exist anymore.
Android isn't FOSS. Some parts of Android are FOSS, many aren't, and the most used versions of the OS have built in DRM that locks you out of some functions if you get root.
Bringing Android as an example of successful FOSS is advanced stupidity.
You can also make convenient and popular FOSS such as VLC, Notepad++, 7zip, Blender, and many others, but that takes a lot more effort and attention to user demands than what LARPers are willing to put in.
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Only one reason: it's already been tried.
And (((intel-aviv)))
SHUT IT DOWN
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