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The ARM ecosystem is depressing. Outside some couple of well maintained boards (you know which one), the rest is just kept together "working* by using some obs
by madduci 3y ago
The ARM ecosystem is depressing.
Outside some couple of well maintained boards (you know which one), the rest is just kept together "working* by using some obscure patches around some specific tags or git repositories, that meanwhile get deleted or archived. And if you want also GPU acceleration, then you might be out of luck in many, many cases
I wish the world would keep staying on x86 as much as possible, since it's battle-tested and has broader support than ARM.
- pjmlp 3y agoMany forget x86 is only as it is due to IBM's failure to keep it theirs, and Microsoft's hardware requirements for their OSes.
- nomoreusernames 3y ago[dead]
- chasil 3y agoCan you imagine how awful things would be if the 80286 on the Microchannel bus had won? This was the target for IBM OS/2, and they had little interest in the flat memory model of the 80386.
- hakfoo 3y agoWas it that they weren't interested in the 386, or had they already promised OS/2 for the 286, and now had to honour the cheque Marketing wrote? It's possible they got lapped by Compaq to the 386 because MCA was so much new and custom tooling and they had to deploy an entire coherent ecosystem on day 1, rather than just saying "It's an AT with a faster CPU."
- pjmlp 3y agoDifferent, awful not really, OS/2 was a great OS, full of cool features. OOP based, SOM, Smalltalk as one of the main application languages, CSet++.
- rollcat 3y ago> The ARM ecosystem is depressing. My homelab/PC setup is roughly 60% ARM/x86, with ARM powering my main rig. I wouldn't care to keep the x86 stuff around, except I need to keep building/testing on x86, and most of these machines are still far from EOL. If you'd also consider appliances like Switch or Apple TV, then a combined ~99% of my gaming is also on ARM. (Waiting to see how Stormgate will fare here.) > Outside some couple of well maintained boards (you know which one) [...] Vote with your wallet. The Raspberry Pis are back in stock, and they're great. Need more power? The new Macs are absolutely great. I'm eyeing Asahi Linux too. It seems it can't do USB-C video yet, which is how I've so far avoided having a KVM switch. > [...] "the 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage may be a letdown" [...] Sounds very decent for something you'd throw in your backpack for a quick trip to the server room. Of course YMMV on each and every use case, 3 years ago I was the one throwing rocks at ARM Macs, but we've come a very, very long way.
- cstrahan 3y ago> Need more power? The new Macs are absolutely great. I'm eyeing Asahi Linux too. It seems it can't do USB-C video yet, which is how I've so far avoided having a KVM switch. Unless something changed very recently, Asahi can’t do any external video on the Mac Books (only HDMI on the Mac Mini, and maybe not all variants thereof). External video on Asahi Linux is the only thing keeping me from considering a Mac Book Pro purchase. I simply can’t stomach working without a 27” 4K monitor.
- iAMkenough 3y agoLatest device support is listed here: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/ https://asahilinux.org/fedora/ 14" and 16" MacBook Pro supports HDMI out, but not USB-C displays (yet)
- leidenfrost 3y agoThe x86 ecosystem is just as messy. It's just being kept together thanks to decades of work of correcting quirks and workarounds for crappy hardware.