Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing

[David_Eastham]

@Foxite

I don’t know much about the real-world desktop use of RISC-V,

@mxtom

What are the advantages of a processor like this and is there a world in which I would choose a RISC-V laptop in let’s say 2 year because it is competitive to e.g. Macbook ARM or will this only be something for niche users?

It’s for running Haiku. The ARM port of Haiku has not managed to gain traction for various reasons, but the RISC-V port is making excellent progress.

Of course for legacy systems with huge software catalogues such as GNU/Linux and Windows it will be ages (if ever) when all the utilities are ported over to ARM, let alone RISC-V. For the everyday user on these mainstream operating systems, there is no urgent need to switch from regular x86.