They already sell the Pinetab RISC-V so quite feasible. I'm not sure I'd buy one as I already have a Banana-Pi (SpacemiT K1 8 so not exactly "next-gen") so my next purchase on that would probably be something that would be relatively powerful enough to "forget" it's not ARM/AMD64 for daily usage (which we might not be very far from, not really sure).
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Very cool, sincere thank you for the clarification and even on-boarding process. Installed this way, feels quite efficient. Will dig a big deeper while using them more.
We need a complete CoreBoot + OSS silicon-chips + OSS firmware + all-community / all-commercial dual production lines.
Where are the gaps?
Both global and EU store still sell things. They are still active on social media. I have plenty of their products (PinePhone with keyboard case, PinePhone Pro with LoRA add-on, Pinecil, PineTab2, PineNote, PineTime) which I use often, some on a daily basis, other weekly basis. They just work. As others have pointers out they don't do software, "just" hardware with some community fostering. If tomorrow they announce another product (not sure what that could be as, simply by listing now they are covering already a LOT) and if I need it, I would buy it without much hesitation.
Now I imagine if they don't have anything new they don't announce much, which is reasonable. They might not need the "buzz" as long as they manage the sales in their pipelines.
I would honestly like to see more products but arguably they already have good coverage. Let me ask you then, what do you wish they would add to their existing product line?
Now you can finally relax and enjoy repaying your $100K+ loan!
Ah! Wonderful. I'm always a bit reluctant with system-wide install so I'll put AM on hold for now but probably tinker with AppMan/dbin soon.
Out of curiosity, one of the app I'd usually get outside my package manager is Chromium. I'd usually download the latest build from https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ so in this situation, how would you do it using any of those solutions? Would it support adding extensions e.g https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/immersive-web-emulator/cgffilbpcibhmcfbgggfhfolhkfbhmik that I need for development?
PS: note to self, go through bash history to see which failed apt install attempts could be replaced with such tools.
Agreed, cf https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-nvidia-which-more-popular-linux and I do hope to have the choice soon.
Great, can you clarify your setup then? I might be able to learn from it.
Absolutely, I'm not blaming any Wayland implementation about this, just giving my current situation as an example.
I do so because I imagine it's a popular setup (according to https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-nvidia-which-more-popular-linux based on ProtonDB data, more than 60% Linux gamers had an NVIDIA GPU) and thus might prevent adoption.
I hope NVIDIA will fix that. Maybe a push from Valve would help.
Also this is a good way to re-consider integration back, e.g. generating .desktop files for /.local/share/applications/ when using KDE rather than having to manually do it each time.
Hmmm very interesting thanks for the links and explanation!
I'm not "ready" for it yet so I've bookmarked all that (by adding a file in ~/Apps ;) but that's definitely and interesting, and arguably neater solution.
Honestly I try to stick to the distribution package manager as much as I can (apt on Debian stable) but sometimes it's impossible. Getting binaries myself feels a bit "wrong" but usually works. Some, like yt-dlp as I see in your list, do have their own update mechanisms. Interesting to consider stepping back and consider the trade off. Anyway now thanks to you I know there are solutions for a middle ground!
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Tool lazy to read it all with existing comments but still want to help so :
vim/gvim(and derivatives, e.g.neovim) oremacsor derivatives, if you are serious about text editing, being text or otherwise, they are the foundations. They probably include most of what you need out of the box and if not they do and a lot more through their extensionsYou are swimming upstream there. Apple is doing everything it legally and technically can to lock up its own ecosystem. You might managed few things with e.g
libimobiledevice/ifuseorishor even KDE ConnectMe too, playing both 2D and XR on a nearly daily basis. It works. Sadly, just like the previous answer some are trying to sabotage anything they can via DRM or "anticheat" and this might screw up your experience entirely. A good heuristic is if works on the SteamDeck (cf ProtonDB) it probably works on Linux.
They work. I don't have an Xbox controller but SteelSeries ones and I play near daily on them, either with their dongle or via BT, with Steam or anything else.
VLC
As suggested in the first answer, learn Bash or any other CLI environment, it's made for this kind of tasks and is the de facto standard for literally.
They work. If you need more it takes second with your desktop environment, e.g KDE Plasma for me, to add new ones.
That's the "cost" of freedom. You do whatever you want with your computer. It sounds trivial but it's not. We have been trained for years if not decades to see someone else get to decide for us. It's false. It's amazing. It is also daunting. Now YOU get to decide. You can use you distribution package manager or a binary or... anything in between (AppImage, AM, dbin, cloning a repository and building from source, etc). It's crazy... but it works so it's up to you.
Who cares, picks any one BUT keep your data safe! Try it for an hour, a day, a week and try another one if you feel like it. Switch whenever YOU want for whatever reason YOU care. Cf previous answer.