Mb autocorrected from archinstall and i didn’t notice X’)

Since archinstall is a thing, arch really isn’t that hard to install or use, but these days I favor nixos for the reproducibility.

Meh, I’m gen Z and can roll out my own cpu on fpga, and run my own Linux kernel on it, so don’t circlejerk too hard, millenials…

The Chinese are doing a good job with open source ai models, especially Z. Ai, qwen and minimax, Google also got us something decent with gemma4, but yeah we need commercial AI to fail so we can get affordable access to vram…

True that one is indeed a bit overkill compared to MCUs, but I’ve worked with it extensively and it I indeed able to be used bare metal through xboot/awboot. It’s larger cousins like the v851s and T113-S3 aren’t as easy though.

The cheapest thing you could still run linux on would probably be an Allwinner F1C100s, you can get those in bulk for about 2 £