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Today i installed arch linux for the first time (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them).

Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the point if they still have AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc. chips on them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You mean things like the Intel Management Engine? I think they are partially disabled, like in librebooted ThinkPads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome to riscv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is only for laptops by the way. System76 desktop BIOSes are still closed source. It's such a shame that there's no FOSS BIOS for desktop PCs, hopefully AMD OpenSIL changes that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Werent they gonna make them foss? Heard it some time ago so who knows

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure they can make them FOSS because they don't make their desktop motherboards AFAIK. They're much harder to make than laptop ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

PinePhone Pro for the mobile side. The schematics are available. I quite like mine, especially with the keyboard case. It's basically a pocket laptop.