It is not enough to make a better product.
It is not enough to create all tooling and libraries to seamlessly migrate to the new product, but it helps.
There also needs to be a great big positive reason to make the change. Paying developers, huge user base, the only hardware support, great visuals, etc.
Until I cannot run software on X11, I won't switch over knowingly.
I had to look it up. Article from 2021.
https://www.healthywomen.org/your-care/pelvic-exams-unconscious-women
Fuck
Thank you for pulling the image out.
This talk surprised me at the time. I was starting the eye opening experience of design hardware. Linux more orchestrates the hardware than controlling it.
To avoid convo in multiple places, it is in reply to message you replied to.
USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich
At 19:22
RISC-V is better for Linux due to driver support. Vendors making hardware are more likely to use RISK-V for their controllers due to the costs. Modern computers are putting more functions under control of kernels that run on proprietary compute. (There exists a chart showing how little the Linux kernel directly controls.) As more of those devices run RISC-V, they will become more discoverable.
Also, those that can design or program tge devices will have more transferrable skills. Leading to the best designs spreading, and all designs improving.
Places in a computer with compute (non-exhaustive, not all candidates for RISC-V):
BMC
Soundcard (or subsystem on mainboard)
Video card (GPU and the controller for the GPU)
Storage drives
Networking
Drive interface controlling card
Mainboard (not BMC)
Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor
UPS
Printer
Will it be perfect? Nope.
A lot of the vendors will lock things up as well.
Interesting news for a Friday. Gobto theater and be murdered. Guess ticket ticket sales will suck this week.
You know, if the rules for government handouts were more open, another company could gain ground. Just pointing out something congress controls.
But how do they sync? Personnel files and communicators works for starfleet, but not civilians.
(Some civilians have replicator access, though clearly not all.)
$40 billion per year to end world hunger.
https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
Yes. You can buy their support though.
But why would the distros do that? It takes effort and has real costs for them.