This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive
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DeepComputing PCs aim to elbow out Arm and x86 architectures
  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    4 days ago

    Once there is Debian support, would it just run all software that Debian runs ie steam proton?

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      24·
      4 days ago

      Not in the way you’re hoping for. Proton is a wine offshoot, which means it’s exclusive to x86 and x86_64 arches. You could perhaps get it to run by installing qemu and setting it up to run x86_64 binaries, but even if that worked you’d likely end up with single-digit FPS in most games.

      Based on what Gentoo currently has keyworded, you should be able to get a solid useful desktop—KDE or Gnome (or sway, if that’s your preference), Firefox, Libreoffice, Gimp, VLC, and other popular basics—but I wouldn’t expect games or other proprietary software for a while yet, if ever.

      • GreyBeard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        There are translation layers to run x86/64 code on ARM, I don’t know how easy it will be to do the same work on RISCV, but I’m guessing if the will is there, the code will follow. But I’ve yet to see a RISC-V chip that gets close to the performance if a modern ARM or x86 laptop/desktop class device, so that translation might be useful to help close gaps, but I doubt anyone is going to be doing real gaming on RISC-V this year.

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          There are a few open-source games that appear to work already, yes, including supertuxcart and nethack. And someone will surely port Doom to it soon if they haven’t yet.