I have RISC-V powered LicheePi4A (with 16GB LDPPR4 RAM and 128 GB eMMC storage, all integrated) from Sipeed.

The overall results are (as of now; this is a subject to change in time!): "Not great, not terrible".
Overal performance is somewhere around RPi 4B+, maybe a bit above.

My device has different CPU than ROMA II laptop; LicheePi4A uses Alibaba TH1520 RISC-V CPU:
- 4 core @1.85GHz (up to 2GHz, dependant on chip quality)
- vectoring instruction support 0.7.1 (RVV071)
- integrated 5TOPS NPU
- integrated graphics (mobile GPU from Imagination)
- integrated VPU (for hardare video coding/decoding)

These RISC-V solutions suffer from older manufacturing technology (it seems all those Chinese manufacturers are currently stuck at around 12nm manufacturing process, so somewhere at around max. 2GHz clock speeds etc). Good enough for low(er) performance applications (phones, tablets, low-perf laptop/desktops), not good enough for high-performance desktops yet. They will get there in time, though...
Some parts of platform's ISA specifications are still being worked out/added (like hardware virtualization support instruction set).

Also the software/driver support still has to mature: Majority of current RISC-V solutions (Milk-V, StarFive, Sipeed etc., with all their integrated solution boards) are still working to get their drivers to the Linux upstream progressilvely for the past two years (e.g. this LicheePi is currently still stuck on Debian kernel 5.11, kernels 6.x coming soon(tm), also Sipeed's SDK with drivers and 3rd party stuff is required to actually build a bootable kernel/system). Also, the GPU drivers from Imagination are not opensource (yet), despite Imagination's declared goal of opensourcing the drivers (realistically this will take probably years...), so limitted to none desktop/app hardware acceleration availability. Moreover, this (mobile) GPU supports only OpenGL ES, not full OpenGL. Although the GPU does support Vulkan, everything will have to wait for drivers from Imagination...

So despite the platform maturing for the past two-three years, it still has a lot of work ahead. But it will get there in time, it needs a couple of years, maybe. And I'm looking forward to the new open-spec hardware platform :grin:
(Also, I'd be very concerned about my future if I was ARM :whistle:)

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Hmm.... I wonder what GPU and/or NPU capabilities this thing has?:unsure:

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Happy Ubuntu user for more that a decade here :happy:
For both business (Ubuntu being my main daily workload driver) and pleasure (anything non-job related, incl. gaming of course).

I just cannot wait to get migrated to the new 24.04 LTS :heart:

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Oh my... Very nice update :smile:
Time to say goodbye to my free time again :grin:

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Quoting: kerossinOk, so what's the point of the Snap Store?

I thought the whole point of having a closed and official Canonical-controlled store was trust - you will be getting only legit apps approved by Canonical and not some wild west of community sources.

But since Canonical does no checks it's pointless.

Random user: Hey, this is PayPalV2.
Canonical: Welcome aboard! Don't reply, this was an automated message

Well, the original point of having a Snap store was to have containerized desktop apps on Linux desktop.

Anyway, is this happening on Flathub too, or snap is just more discussed with this issue?

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It looks amazing.

And it looked the same way amazing years ago, when it was supposed to be released...:angry:

This is so old, that I removed it from my wishlist some time last year as I consider it being a waporware... :unsure:

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Quoting: SzkodnixOh no!

Anyway speaking of Flatpak... :grin:

I use mostly snaps and very few flatpaks because Snapcraft is way ahead of Flathub in terms of verified (mainstream-ish) apps. Unverified apps should always have a big fat warning sign.

Yep, this ^^^^!

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Hmmm... Factorio meets Starcraft? :tongue:

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleStories like this happen every few years. In the early 2010s, a local government in some European city (I forget which) announced they were entirely switching to Linux in all their public service departments. 2 weeks go by, "no, sorry we're sticking with Windows". Turns out they had a visit from a Microsoft sales rep.

Yeah, sounds like some Men in Black from M$ stepped quickly in and proposed "an offer that cannot be refused" to them....
Its sick...:dizzy:

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Well in general, I firmly believe that the FIRST app in user's desktop that shuold be MANDATORY to be sandboxed is the web browser.

Change my mind...

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