But, for my curiosity: if you bought one of those what would you run on it? I see that Starfive claims they have Chromium[1] and there's reports of Firefox[2] so maybe in this "the browser is the OS" world that'd be sufficient
I'd just do all normal development on it. Nice power-efficient machines which push the multi architecture apps and aren't held back by Qualcomm hardware support would be amazing.
Depending on how one defines "consumer," that's already available: https://liliputing.com/risc-v-laptops-299-muse-book-and-399-... and https://frame.work/products/deep-computing-risc-v-mainboard was announced earlier but seems it is, as you implied, still "mailing-list ware"
But, for my curiosity: if you bought one of those what would you run on it? I see that Starfive claims they have Chromium[1] and there's reports of Firefox[2] so maybe in this "the browser is the OS" world that'd be sufficient
1: https://github.com/starfive-tech/chromium.src/wiki/Chromium-...
2: https://lists.riscv.org/g/apps-tools-software/topic/now_we_h...