I have a laptop that I use regularly that I actually found at the recycle center when I dropped off some bottles. It is running Linux of course.
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Resize your partition to free up some space for a new partition. You will have to shrink the filesystem and then the partition. Install Linux on the new partition. Once installed, you can mount the old drive and set it up to mount as /home
Then clean things up a bit.
Assuming you used LUKS, you will have to know your passphrase to mount the encrypted drive.
Once you have a /home separate from your boot partition, it is a lot easier to distro-hop.
Resizing is a bit risky though. If you can afford even a small SSD, installing to that and then mounting /home is safer.
Agreed. They are following the ARM playbook but faster. The success of ARM has made it easier. ARM is just starting to take on the server side and RISC-V is about to enter that space with Tenstorrent, Alibaba, Ventana, and others. Alibaba has a talk on the C930 at the RISC-V summit later this month. Tenstorrent has a talk on Ascalon with “now available” in the title. Akeana has a few talks bragging about performance. There is a suspiciously high number of Qualcomm appearances as well.
Intel could really get squeezed on the server. They have to compete not just with AMD but with both ARM and RISC-V. If you are building out cloud infrastructure that is going to be running end-user Python scripts that wire together AWS web services, who cares what the ISA is?
I think ARM made a big mistake suing Qualcomm over X Elite. If I was a chip maker, I would use RISC-V simply to avoid the risk of ARM trying to block or dictate my business model.
And if you are doing AI at the edge, the regular CPU hardly matters. What advantages do ARM and x86 offer over RISC-V there? If none, an open ISA makes sense. Again, just for the control and lack of legal risk if nothing else.
Certainly not. But they are eating the market from the bottom up. A lot of that share would have gone to ARM previously.
With RVA23, we are expecting some server class chips in 2026 that will compete with ARM and even Intel. You see Ubuntu positioning themselves for that now.
In the SBC market, we are going to get Pi 5 or better performance next year as well. That puts RISC-V in contention for many use cases. Mid-range phones and tablets should not be far off.
It is not going to be laptops and desktops for a bit but it is probably closer than people think. And once it comes, it is going to move quickly. 2030 maybe? How many non-Apple ARM laptops will have gotten traction by then?
ARM could really get squeezed.
KDE has vastly improved in my view and is a really great option these days. That said…
It is huge, monolithic, and difficult to modularize.
It is complex.
It occasionally has runaway resource use (eg. Indexing).
Speaking for myself, this is why COSMIC is appealing:
- nice middle-ground between oversimplified and over opinionated GNOME and KDE complexity
- both floating and tiling are first class
- Wayland native (no legacy)
- pushing DE innovation
- commercially backed
- written in Rust
- attractive
- fast
I also love that it is driving Smithay and Iced which matures the foundations of other great projects like Niri and even RedoxOS.
For System76, the choice is to keep shipping their now very long in the tooth previous version or a beta of their new one. I have no doubt the beta is the better experience.
And they are obviously stabilizing the beta rapidly now.
MIT and Apache are free software licenses. They provide all of the “4 freedoms” defined by the Free Software Foundation.
I hope those things will come but no need to hold off if the performance is there. UEFI, ACPI, etc. are really about the boot process. For SBC class hardware, having a device tree in the kernel works fine. Even Apple Silicon Macs use device trees (no ACPI).
On Apple Silicon, there is a project to add ACPi in software (firmware) so that they can boot operating systems that expect ACPi (like Windows). You do not need it for Linux.
Of course, dynamic device discovery and power management would be nice. Bit it is not a deal-breaker for me.
I hope you had the time of your life.
Actually Trump renegotiated it, called it USMCA, said it was the best trade deal in history, signed it on camera in a huge White House press event, lost the Presidency, won the Presidency, and then called it the worst deal ever and that it was signed by a stupid “past President”. Then tariffs in violation of it.
Even for Trump, that story arc is pretty wild.
At my dump, you get weighed on the way in and out and you pay for the weight you drop. So, if you leave your garbage and load up some ewaste, it saves you money. They are literally paying you to take it away.