Nice. Waiting for RVA23 boards with a PCI-E slot to become widely available so I can test out box64 on those

That newer open source driver is still far behind but is progressing. Those graphics cards will have a great new life with modern kernels someday

Last I had it on my desktop was like 2 months ago. Oddities with games here and there was a deal breaker for me. Don’t remember if I could alt tab over video game windows yet. Not being able to alt-tab other windows over a video game is a deal breaker for me. There were random nich applications I don’t recall that didn’t handle dialog windows/file pickers well. That may be better by now. The file explorer is really bare bones even compared to nautilus. Not expecting Dolphin but I want something better.

High hopes though. I may give it another go as my primary with 26.04. The Cosmic applications are all pretty fast. I think I like how it looks more than KDE just KDE is way more fully featured

It’s preparation for 26.04 and it’s a lot of work to maintain support for the older hardware that’s not very popular. Optimizing developer resources towards what should be the first RISC-V hardware to try and get mainstream adoption

Because Ubuntu is only supporting RISC-V chips that meat RVA23 standards. There’s no consumer hardware out there yet released. RVA23 compliant hardware is supposed to be the big jump to be a solid alternative to ARM and x86 consumer hardware so that’s what they want to support that going forward rather than the older more dev/experimental hardware that they’ll still support on 24.04

I put the base at 5 years being optimistic. I’m not expecting 5 years from final spec publishing. A stable spec is released end of the year so pretty much 2026. Take a couple years for hardware decoders to start releasing in niche to expensive gear. Pretty much demonstrative gear.

Then progressively decoders proliferate down to consumer gear with years to get down to cheap entry level gear. Keep in mind the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 this year was the first 7 series chip to get an AV1 hardware decoder. Don’t know about Snapdragon 6 and 4 series of chips. AV1 stable spec was like 2018

Maybe AV2 adoption will be quicker because VVC seems to have garnered minimal interest since 2020. However long it takes, you’ll be itching for a new computer by then. Lessons learned from what adoption took for AV1 for AV2 development. Regardless, content distribution will trail hardware decode adoption on mass media devices, phones - maybe even have to wait for people to replace their televisions with ones that have AV2 decoders in them

Don’t sweat it. By the time AV2 starts getting serious adoption rolled out, your hardware will be 5+ years old

Like others, it was specs for me. I fully am ready to deal with minimal Linux applications designed for a small touchscreen display but for that compromised mobile experience, I want a good desktop experience when it’s docked. So I’d like near flagship phone specs. So today would be like Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or better. Canonical had the right idea with Unity 8 but didn’t execute

Now today there are mobile Linux frontends but no company pushing out hardware to leverage a Linux phones most unique ability, docked experience with full desktop applications. Things like the Ayn Odin 2/3 or Ayaneo Pocket S. They’re putting out niche Android gaming handheld with high end mobile SoCs that I doubt sell a ton while in the Linux phone land, it’s lackluster

The link in “onto the next challenge” is to an Intel page

Introduction to the Xe-HPG Architecture

I was hoping it’d link to FEX-emu. Would have loved if they went full time on that. Still, age 23 and done all that. At 23 I finished college and by age 30 still felt like a junior developer, mid at best

Googled around. Looks like Godot is being used as the basis for user created content. So I imagine they updated Frostbite to be able to ingest Godot formatted level files and whatever other needed Godot exported files into their “User Generated Content” portal. It’s not clear to me how much power they’ll give users for what users will be able to import from Godot created content. This is all supposed to be a part of the live service aspect of the game so it sounds like monetized user mods/content. I imagine that the scripts they’d support would be limited

Glorious 2.49 and older where almost everyone hated the UI to the 2.5-2.6 where a lot less people hated the UI but it felt like the UI was mostly complained about as a barrier for adoption. Then 2.8 happened and the it seemed like the UI started getting some respect from non-Blender users and non-open source advocates