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  • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    Aren't there already MIPS based laptops available in China with Loognson processors? I've actually been meaning to see if I can get one where I live off aliexpress or something.

    Edit: Here ya go: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804582346265.html

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]M
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      7 months ago

      1500 dollary-doos oh no ma'am i use linux cause im POOR /hj

      All this stuff looks really cool but it's still in its infancy right now and also Fedora doesn't have good support for RISC-V processors (they're still working on ARM and hopefully apple silicon speeds that up).

      • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        Yeah I was disappointed seeing that too. I was hoping there'd be a cheap-ish netbook like variant just to play around with building and testing software for it. Though there are affordable-ish motherboards for desktops by the looks of it. Though keep in mind those are MIPS, not RISC-V. Both are RISC ISAs but MIPS has been around in computers much longer, but also isn't very popular compared to ARM so software compatibility bmihht be an issue. I think the largest use of MIPS architecture was the PS2 processor.