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It will be several years until RISC-V can compete with ARM for the high-end mobile market.
At the moment affordable RISC-V chips are on the level of a Raspberry Pi.

YouTube video by LivingLinux GL-117 Action Flight Sim ARM Linux

I was surprised to see that someone is still maintaining the action flight simulator GL-117.
This games is more than 20 years old! The game will benefit from good OpenGL support.
codeberg.org/wickedsmoke/...
youtu.be/J2W6BryXwbY

felix86 25.08 A major milestone for felix86 was reached this month!

As is written in the article, it's already available on other ARM devices.
And with projects like Box64 and Felix86, you can even play some games on RISC-V.
felix86.com/Browsers/

You are confused, as choosing Android for being a more open system, has got nothing to do with price.
You like the iPhone better? I hope you enjoy being in a golden cage.

Well, it's still there in the current Pi 5 image. I hope they will keep it for some time. But I think I'll have a look for a replacement.

YouTube video by LivingLinux Radxa Dragon Q6A Games and Emulation

I recently bought the Radxa Dragon Q6A 8GB for less than €100 (US prices can be higher because of tariffs).
Faster than the Pi 5 and better OpenGL support. It needs better mainline support, but the (custom) Ubuntu image looks promising.
radxa.com/products/dra...
youtu.be/RC6OgnSgpKw

YouTube video by LivingLinux openSUSE Raspberry Pi 5 2025

Booting openSUSE on a Raspberry Pi 5. They are still working on fully enabling the Pi 5, but I think it's usable as a server. 3D acceleration is still WIP, but you can start a desktop session. And you can use YaST for administrative tasks, so you don't have to use a terminal.
youtu.be/8SNym6Pea-o

The big corporations are dreaming of charging monthly for services, that were products in the past. Software is turned into subscriptions. Even car manufacturers are looking at this business model. Want more performance from your engine? Pay a monthly fee, so they will enable it OTA.

I think they lost the battle for cheap low-power desktop replacements. When even Qualcomm SoCs start competing with a Raspberry Pi 5 (Radxa Dragon Q6A), I no longer see the point of buying a Raspberry Pi 5.

YouTube video by LivingLinux Proceed at your own RISC-V! gcc-14 with Bianbu 1.0 on the Banana Pi F3 RISC-V SBC

I was able to run Stable Diffusion on the SpacemiT K1 already in 2024.
Now I'm waiting for the SpacemiT K3.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGf0...

I use mine to play with AI on the NPU (LLMs, Stable Diffusion), PS2 emulation and even some Steam games.
I still have to check if I can use it as a HDMI capture device with the mainline kernel.

That's a shame of the RK3588 board. Which one is it?

Zolang er geen Nvidia GPU in zit, dan kan Linux over het algemeen zonder problemen werken. Met Nvidia moet je wat meer geluk hebben.
Toevallig net naar openSUSE gekeken. Met YaST heb je voor de meeste dingen geen terminal meer nodig. Schijnt alleen dat ze YaST gaan vervangen.

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I was informed by the developer that it is better to run only with the 4 performance CPU cores of the RK3588, and also set the governor to performance. See more information here: www.reddit.com/r/RockchipNP...

YouTube video by LivingLinux Running llama.cpp GGUF model with Rockchip RK3588 NPU 2025

I found a post on Reddit that someone is working on a fork of llama.cpp to run GGUF models on the NPU of the Rockchip RK3588. It still uses a lot of CPU, but any help from the NPU is a bonus.
www.reddit.com/r/RockchipNP...
youtu.be/J-ztitWPw6g

As long as the source is available, you can try to build the software (as I'm doing with some projects now).
I'm hoping SpacemiT will send me a testing unit of the K3, so I can start testing with RVA23.

I do hope that will happen once RVA23 hardware is available. Otherwise we will struggle with software fragmentation.

This summer's crowdfunding campaign for the Liberux NEXX Linux smartphone was a failure, but the Liberux team says it's secured new funding to continue the project and is hiring a developer to help work on open source software for the work-in-progress phone. mastodon.social/@Liberux/115...

YouTube video by LivingLinux Radxa Dragon Q6A RPCS3 PS3 Emulation 2025

Testing PS3 emulation on the Radxa Dragon Q6A Snapdragon 6490 SBC. Don't expect to play a lot of games, but a smaller title like Super Stardust HD is possible.
youtu.be/hB3KnWP3HhU

Hmmm, perhaps for your local files, but there is no Widevine L1 support for the Pi 5, so it's a bad choice for streaming services.

Nope. US sanctions means no factory (like TSMC or Samsung) will produce it. Even Indian government has no appetite to defy US sanctions.
You can start with something like the Orange Pi RV2, or wait until the SpacemiT K3 gets released.

Milk-V Oasis development has been paused indefinitely (RISC-V mini ITX computer) - Liliputing Milk-V Oasis development has been paused indefinitely (RISC-V mini ITX computer)

Claiming RISC-V is moving slow is a different thing than saying you want cheap RISC-V chips that can compete with modern i5 or i7.
Things looked really interesting with the announcement of the SG2380, until Sophgo was put on the sanction list.
liliputing.com/milk-v-oasis...

This was from Armbian, but audio wasn't working there either.

dmesg output after booting the Radxa Dragon Q6A SBC

Probably something missing in the kernel. I did see they were working on getting audio working for another board with the same chip back in May.
lkml.org/lkml/2025/5/...

The CIX P1 (CD8160) is one of the new generation chips to fill that void. I'm also looking forward to the Rockchip RK36xx series.
And I hope I can get my hands on a SpacemiT K3 RISC-V board in 2026.
www.orangepi.org/html/hardWar...

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I don't think RISC-V is moving slow. Catching up with Intel and ARM means they must go faster than them.
RISC-V has some interesting options for SBCs. There was a Kickstarter for a $20 RISC-V SBC (excluding tax and shipping).
2026 will be exciting for RISC-V.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

The big questions I have, Qualcomm showed running Debian on their X1E laptops. Why isn't Qualcomm more involved in the Linux support? Why did Qualcomm turn a partnership with Tuxedo down to work on the Linux support?

YouTube video by LivingLinux Armbian Edge Build Questing Quokka Issues and Fixes

I had an issue with building the Armbian image based on Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka). I had to remove the package nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal from the build script.
There was also an issue with the Snap Daemon, but a reinstall fixed that: sudo apt reinstall snapd
youtu.be/eZ2KLH14UHg

Well done! One of my main reasons to use more ARM and RISC-V chips is power efficiency. It's a pity the times that games consoles were passively cooled are gone. But my PS5 hasn't seen much playing hours this year.

YouTube video by LivingLinux Celeste 64 ARM Linux

Playing Celeste 64 on ARM Linux. You do need a good OpenGL driver. I wasn't able to get it working on my Rockhip RK3588 SBC, but it is working on the Radxa Dragon Q6A with the Snapdragon QCS6490 (OpenGL 4.6).
maddymakesgamesinc.itch.io/celeste64
youtu.be/u-W8X8SzE7s