All I hope is that this means less drama.

I don’t use (or want to use) Apple silicon. I don’t have a personal stake in whether Linux runs well on it. But the drama we’ve seen recently is neither good for Linux as a whole nor good for these specific subsystems.

I do want to see more rust in the kernel, but not at the cost of harming overall kernel development. I want to see more rust in the kernel because I believe that, if done well, that step can make kernel development better.

The native performance of this board is similar to a Raspberry Pi 3. With Box64 it’ll be significantly worse.

There’s quite a push behind RISC-V now, in part because China seems to like the idea of not being tied to American or British companies for their CPU architecture. We’ll see whether it actually pass out or not.

Yep, which also explains why a distro that comes with Cinnamon won…