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- 3 months
Okay now I understand, thank you for explanation :)
- 3 months
Maybe i’ll just use RISV-V, in the beginning (2028-2034), to coding, and multimedia, maybe LMMS will work smooth
I know that. I just wanted to install the drivers strictly on Debian because I love Debian, and it’s the only distro I use. I’d been jumping around between different distros, but after falling in love with LMDE’s stability, I fell in love with Debian, and then I just switched straight to a clean install of pure debian
Gemini Pro 3 and 2.5 as far as I remember
Around 2020, I got the aforementioned laptop. At that time, I was using Windows, and generally, my IT knowledge was quite poor. Then I had a break from using it due to issues with computer overuse, and after returning from treatment (2021), I started using other laptops. This one ended up in a closet. Around 2023 I got a my beloved ThinkPad T470.
After some time, I dug this laptop out of the closet and wanted to install Linux on it. I managed to do it, but I couldn’t install the drivers for the dedicated graphics card. Because of that, I didn’t have HDMI or the dedicated card itself functioning. I was installing proprietary drivers, which generally caused issues with the kernel. So, the laptop just sat there for a long time.
At a certain point, towards the end of 2025, I realized that I actually needed a more powerful machine than the ThinkPad T470. So I dug out this old laptop, and at the urging of the LLM I use daily, I tried to put it together. With its help, I finally managed to set up those drivers because it turned out that my previous failure to install them was simply because I hadn’t enabled the ‘contrib’ repository.
It was a success! What’s more, it’s quite a beast now. I threw in a 1 TB SSD, 16 GB of RAM, bought a 200W power supply, and raised the TDP to 45W in UMAF. I must say I am proud of this computer, and I also tweaked a lot of things within the system itself. This laptop has also taught me a lot; before this, I briefly had a PC with an Athlon, which introduced me to playing around with motherboard settings.
What is the purpose of my post? To give hope to people with Nvidia GPUs or laptops with dedicated cards that it is indeed possible to set them up (on Debian especially, cause it’s kinda difficile there) :)"
See the screenshot for the full specifications; I recommend taking a look
I forgot to mention, I’ve been using Linux since December 2022
- 3 months
It may be excitement of something new, I’m a die-hard nonconformist, but I also love it when devices do exactly what I tell them to (which is why, for example, I modified my laptop using UMAF and managed to soft-brick it for the first time in the process :P). Your observation about laptops gives me sadness, because, it’s logical but i have hope that RISC-V laptops will be anyway (what is obvious but not obvious is how anywhere good they’ll be). I may answered your comment a little bit offtopic or chaotic, sorry, but i think you get my point :)
- 3 months
If you want to be the Morpheus of someone’s life, go somewhere else, compared to others, you haven’t contributed much to the discussion
- 3 months
Thanks for info and predictions, it helps me understand and prepare (or more likely - test possible circumstances) to confrontation with my idea/plan
- 3 months
Yes, but (answering to first and second point) today everything is changing fast, so ig that RISC-V evolution will earn something from that run too, but Moore’s law is slowing down so maybe run is at the end, we’ll see
- 3 months
Thanks, i will check that, it’ll be good for testing, ig
- 3 months
Remember 2013 it was yester… near 13 years ago… yeah i feel old too although I’m only 21 years old
- 3 months
I know, and i think that i will end up with something like RISC-V as portable laptop and big AMD64 pc for doing heavy things via ssh or directly
- 3 months
Thank you, (and others) for helping me understand this thing, maybe this answer is a little off-top but with that info i will be able to learn (sure i can search in internet but i need basis to know what I need to search) :), i’m not new to cpu and it things but risc-v is somewhat difficult to me.
- 3 months
I know, I mean, I want to use computer from 2028 in 2030, having hope that software will optimize, unlocking full potential of this devices (if there will be any in 2028 laptop)
- 3 months
That’s a valid point, though it’s not as absurd as it might seem. The thing is, I plan to buy this two-year-old computer in 2030, because perhaps the software will mature on it over the next few years, so that it might run noticeably more efficiently, just like my ThinkPad T470, for example, which ran more and more stably and smoothly over time (up to a point). Maybe what I’m writing sounds a bit like a prompt for an LLM model, but that’s because I’m not used to posting on sites like this (I discovered this site today at 3:00 p.m. and I’ve only had an account for three hours), and as for LLM models, I spend a lot of time on them every day
Linux and RISC-V by 2030
I’m planning to switch to RISC-V by 2030, and since this is new to me (I’m an old AMD64 (and i386) veteran), I wanted to ask what your thoughts and predictions are regarding performance, stability, and usability as a creator of all kinds of content, whether it’s music, movies, 3D, or watching cat videos on YouTube. I’m also planning to buy a new, fresh computer, maybe a laptop from around 2027/2028. Is that a good idea, or am I biting off more than I can chew? To sum up, I’m asking for your opinions, advice, warnings, and thoughts. Feel free to write not only answers to my questions but anything you consider important in the context of the RISC-V and Linux marriage in the near future
Although I don’t see all the parts of the system and programs here, I can tell you that, at the very least from what I can see, you shouldn’t just be a quite proud you should be very proud. Any of my experiments outside of KDE Plasma ended up with the system looking like a mess. In summary: well done, keep it up!