They said it was included, not that it was free. I imagine removing the “included” screen would drop the price too.
LeFantome
joined 2 years ago
Wow. $211 is a steep discount. People are going to buy with Linux just to save money, some will try it (because it is there), and some may like it and stay.
At the very least, people may learn that Windows is no easier to install (or even harder).
Used x86-64 has by far the best price/performance. Not even ARM can touch it. Even early 64 bit Intel chips were as fast as a Pi 5.
However, old x86-64 is going to be large and power hungry. It is also going to suck in the GPU and RAM dept. Bad for AI.
RISC-V is becoming a viable alternative to ARM. Outside of Apple, neither is an alternative to x86-64.
There are many use cases where the speed of the main CPU is not limiting beyond a certain point. Those are the use cases that SBCs play in. RISC-V is entering that zone (except for price).
In other words, RISC-V is becoming viable for early adopters. From there, it will grow volume, drop price and cross-the-chasm to the rest of us.
US/China relations are slowing things down though. We should have had the Milk-V OASIS by now. It would have been the board to really change minds about RiSC-V. But it just got cancelled as the chip maker has had sanctions applied against them.
This appears to be the same processor as the HiFive Premier P550 dev board. So, while this is pretty much the fastest RISC-V CPU, it is still only about as fast as a Raspberry Pi 4.
Still, RISC-V is catching up. Fast enough to be useful.
What I really want to see is the price. The HiFive board with 16 GB is $400 (pretty steep). A 16 GB Pi 5 is under $200 and of course faster.
Still, depending on price, RISC-V is becoming a viable choice. Very cool.
RHEL 9 defaulted to Wayland in 2022. RHEL 10 will not even include Xorg.
I agree that businesses lag, often by years. So the fact that RHEL is so far along in the Wayland transition kind of shows how out-of-date the anti-Wayland rhetoric is.
Are you a Debian Stable user perhaps? It feels like you have been trapped on an island alone and are not aware that WWII is over.
Your point is that it is still rough and then you bring up a bunch of stuff that is no longer an issue.
NVIDIA in particular is a solved problem with both explicit sync and open source kernel modules as the default from NVIDIA themselves.
RDP, Rustdesk, and Waypipe are probably going to eat into your billion dollars (and network transparency laments).
As stated in the article, opt-out vsync is already a thing (though not widely implemented yet).
I have not used GNOME in a while but KDE on Wayland is great. And the roadmap certainly looks a lot nicer than xorg’s.
I was on a video call in Wayland an hour ago. I shared my screen. I did not think about it much at the time but, since you brought it up….
If that is your full list, I think you just made the case that Wayland is in good shape.
RHEL 9 defaulted to Wayland in 2022 and RHEL 10 will not even include Xorg as an option. Clearly the business world is transitioning to Wayland just fine.
GNOME and KDE both default to Wayland. So, most current Linux desktops do as well.
X11 will be with us a long time but most Linux users will not think about it much after this year. They will all be using Wayland.
I think ffmpeg is overkill. I would use ImageMagick or Scrot. That said, it makes sense to call a utility to do it.
If you are using Uno Platform, there is a TakeScreenshot class. I have not used it. Uno Platform targets Linux so that may work.
There is a Screenshot class in MAUI but MAUI does not target Linux. You could try the unofficial port but I have no experience with it: https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux
Linux is not a supported target for MAUI apps.
You do not seem to want companies to be part of Linux. This, despite the fact that the majority of code we Linux users enjoy is corporate sponsored. And the fact more software in a typical Linux distro is MIT licensed than is GPL ( and don’t forget BSD and Apache).
For sure not. It built Microsoft.