So let's say I want to drop x86 by principle, because every company involved in that closed architecture is basically a big mafia.
Of course there's ARM, but it's not any better. NDAs forcing vendors to not release drivers. So ARM machines (I can only think of the pinebook) are not an option.
There was a new lemote announced, but I never heard of it again.
What architecture could I use? Doesn't have to be enough as a daily driver (although I'm mostly using my Raspberry Pi 3 for everyday stuff, so my performance requests are rather low). I just need a new toy to play around with and I don't have much place for something like an old SparcStation.
PowerPC is funny, but old PowerPC thinkpads are sold >800$ here.
A small SBC would be the best, a laptop would be fine, too. It should be able to boot Linux and show me a console.
I'm going to be the star of all screenfetch threads
Joshua Collins
Uh are there any mips devices you can find? Honestly if you rule out x86 and ARM you might be better off writing your own instruction set and make your own CPU haha
Christopher Hernandez
kys weeb
Ryan Morales
I used to use a Mac Mini. PowerPC is comfy, but dying ;_;
I'm super excited for it too man. Have already preordered.
Jack Sullivan
ARM ecosystem is rather snafu, Power is old, hard to get, also probably not that great (Powermac G5 has huge power draw). Loongsoon is china-botnet and impossible to find.
It's probably either some ARM board that miraculously has good support, or old Power.
