I’m planning to switch to RISC-V by 2030, and since this is new to me (I’m an old AMD64 (and i386) veteran), I wanted to ask what your thoughts and predictions are regarding performance, stability, and usability as a creator of all kinds of content, whether it’s music, movies, 3D, or watching cat videos on YouTube. I’m also planning to buy a new, fresh computer, maybe a laptop from around 2027/2028. Is that a good idea, or am I biting off more than I can chew? To sum up, I’m asking for your opinions, advice, warnings, and thoughts. Feel free to write not only answers to my questions but anything you consider important in the context of the RISC-V and Linux marriage in the near future
Like most ISA’s, RISC-V needs it’s decades in the R&D oven to get passed certain hurdles.
Everything from design, standards, pre-fabrication, fabrication and manufacturing has to get to a point that makes RISC-V comparable to ARM or even x86.
I think my metric is having hardware available to the consumer that can run heavy productivity suites, like NLE’s and real-time media processing in general. Once you get there, albeit through accelerators and subroutines, that’s when RISC-V has arrived.