World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu | Canonical
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DeepComputing partners with Canonical to unveil a huge boost to the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop family  The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is the world’s first RISC-V laptop pre-installed and powered by Ubuntu, which is one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world, providing developers with an outstanding mix of usability and reliability, […]

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My unfunded speculation is that this will quite expensive and a bit hard to boot other thing different that Ubuntu.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    5 months ago

    an array of canonical footguns.

    My present hang up is their insistence of Snap in the presence of a better alternative (flatpak).

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      5 months ago

      Yeah snap kinda makes it a no go. However, throwing PopOS on the same machine could theoretically fix this.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        True that, it’s also possible to completely remove all traces of snap and snapd from an Ubuntu install in a pinch.