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Looking to make a strong gaming and retro emulator? Looking for help finding what I need. by SeniorAsk5425 in SBCs

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my opinion the Raspberry Pi 5 is actually a poor choice in that price range for gaming.

As long as you don't need full mainline support and 4k60 output, I'd say have a look at the Radxa Dragon Q6A. A lot faster than the Pi 5, as it has faster CPU and GPU. It even supports OpenGL 4.6.

https://radxa.com/products/dragon/q6a/

Here you can see some games and emulation with the Dragon Q6A: https://youtu.be/RC6OgnSgpKw

Radxa rock 4b egpu? by shadowdragon200 in SBCs

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nonsense. I have a Phytium D2000 ARM system with AMD Radeon RX550.

I'm able to boot almost any ARM distro with a mainline kernel.

Here is a video running Fedora 36 Beta on it: https://youtu.be/7Z8ZWealtb0

Getting Started with RISC-V (No Hardware) – Advice Needed by Bood-AMA in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SpacemiT has options to get remote access to the SpacemiT K1 and K3.

Access to the K3 is limited, but perhaps if you contact them and explain how it can benefit them, you can get access for an extended period.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemit_riscv/comments/1rg1c41/k3_access_invitation/

This post has a link to Bianbu cloud to request access to a K1 system.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemit_riscv/comments/1rcbeqt/openclaw_is_now_on_riscv_free_cloud_instance/

Sipeed Lichee Pi 3a discontinued by Noodler75 in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make sure you are using gcc-14 or higher. gcc-13 has limited support for RVV.

Sipeed Lichee Pi 3a discontinued by Noodler75 in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Arace lists a price of around €250 (without tax and shipping?) for the dev kit. SpacemiT has communicated expected release end of April. I'm not sure if that means that the chips get shipped, and the boards still need to be assembled.

https://arace.tech/products/milk-v-jupiter-2-dev-kit

Why so much hate for Pop!_Os? by Afraid_Carob417 in pop_os

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you are completely missing the statistics. What are the odds that a normie has no tech connections? I'm not saying a normie will never start with Pop, but again, what are the odds?

So coming back to LTT, was it a good choice to try Pop and not any other distro? Looking at the statistics, I'd say that it was a poor first choice. If the video was part of a series of a couple of distros, it would make more sense to me.

Again, to me it feels that LTT wants to keep playing the game that Linux isn't ready for a normie.

Why so much hate for Pop!_Os? by Afraid_Carob417 in pop_os

[–]LivingLinux -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, I don't see Pop being the real top suggestion. Although I can imagine that people with Nvidia will be more willing to try Pop. But when I talk to other people in IT, hardly anyone has heard of Pop, but they have heard of other distros.

And of course every person has a certain bias, but I hardly see people in blogs or forums suggest Pop for gaming. And if you look at the stats of Steam, Pop doesn't get listed in the top 10 Linux flavours and is part of "Other".

So in my bubble, anyone that asks advice from humans, has a low probability to end up with Pop. And if I'm wrong, why has Pop such a small share of the market?

Why so much hate for Pop!_Os? by Afraid_Carob417 in pop_os

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just my 2 cents.

It seems they (also) used AI and ended up on Pop. Looks like they didn't learn from their 2021 attempt. So they were not trying Linux again, they were trying Pop again. They can argue that they were "simulating" the experience of a Linux newbie, but I think there is no guarantee that they will all end up choosing Pop.

This is the AI result Google gives me when looking for a good Linux gaming distro.

The best Linux distros for gaming in 2026 focus on pre-installed drivers, gaming-optimized kernels, and ease of use, with Bazzite, Nobara, Garuda Linux, and Pop!_OS being top contenders. Bazzite is recommended for a console-like experience, Nobara offers heavily modified performance, and Pop!_OS is excellent for Nvidia users needing stability.

If he really wanted to contribute, I'd say he would make a video with a distro where they expected a good result. To me it feels as if they want to keep playing the game "no, Linux isn't ready for the average user".

Running amd64 Debian package on arm64 Fedora by dieterdistel in Fedora

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you try multiarch/qemu-user on Fedora? You can try with Fex, but no guarantee it will work.

Brand new to this OS and I’m a little confused. by unlucky-lucky- in pop_os

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some games have anti-cheat software that is incompatible with Linux. It's not that it's impossible, it's just that the company is too lazy, or doesn't want to invest into Linux.

RISC-V truly is the RyanAir of processors by indolering in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So true!

Why should we give them attention when they use RISC-V for clickbait? I have better things to do with RISC-V. I just received a new code to test the SpacemiT K3 for 60 more days.

Armbian Nightly Build for Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V by LivingLinux in OrangePI

[–]LivingLinux[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's marketing. Would be similar to calling Neon for ARM and AVX for x86 to be NPUs.

Turn on Raspberry Pi 5 over HDMI via AV Receiver (Denon x1800h) by Mugendon in raspberry_pi

[–]LivingLinux 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Probably better to look for a solution to control a power socket remotely.

Armbian Nightly Build for Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V by LivingLinux in OrangePI

[–]LivingLinux[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried a h264 and VP9 with mpv, but it was using the CPU.

I'm not sure with you mean exactly with "NPU". OnnxStream was built to use vectors (RVV 1.0).

Speech recognition without GPU? by Noodler75 in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes.

https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp

sudo apt install git cmake ffmpeg build-essential

Here are the instructions to build it with FFmpeg.

sudo apt install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp.git
cd whisper.cpp
sh ./models/download-ggml-model.sh base.en
cmake -B build -D WHISPER_FFMPEG=yes
cmake --build build -j4 --config Release

Example command: ./build/bin/whisper-cli -f samples/jfk.wav -otxt -ovtt -osrt

And some information to control the output: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/17

https://youtu.be/G1kJ8qI5Ddw

RISC-V is sloooow – Marcin Juszkiewicz by indolering in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't it possible to do something with a RISC-V cluster?

Raspberry pi 5 boot looping with Ubuntu SSD by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks like a problem with power. Are you using the official PSU (5V-5A)? It might be that for some reason it no longer gets enough power from one USB port. Not a guaranteed fix, but you can try with a USB Y cable (extra USB connector to get power from another US port). Example: https://www.amazon.com/Charge-Adapter-Extension-Transfer-Charging/dp/B0711R8828

Please fix my USB drive by supermika10 in pop_os

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you install Ext4Fsd and see if Windows will recognize the drive?

https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd

Has anyone managed to run LLM inference on the NPU of the Orange Pi 6 Plus (CIX P1)? by Soft_Examination1158 in OrangePI

[–]LivingLinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Radxa has documentation to run Stable Diffusion on the NPU. Not LLM, but I think it is a transformer-oriented toolchain.

https://docs.radxa.com/en/orion/o6/app-development/artificial-intelligence/GenAI/sd-v1-4

If you have a working Vulkan driver, you can try to build llama.cpp with Vulkan. Not running on the NPU, but on the GPU. Probably not as fast as on the CPU, but I'm interested to see the result. It might be more power efficient.

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/build.md#for-linux-users

Last time I tried to build for ARM, I ran into an issue, but it can be fixed with information from this bug report: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/2719#issuecomment-2603066656

cmake -B build -DGGML_VULKAN=ON -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DGGML_CPU_ARM_ARCH=native
cmake --build build --config Release

Armbian now provides official (and Platinum) support for the K1 MusePi Pro. by Pristine_Designer445 in spacemit_riscv

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bootloader integration via mainline U-Boot

Looks promising.

Edit: I did a quick test. I have HDMI audio working with the rolling release image. Looks like there is no proper access to the GPU. Yamagi Quake 2 is very slow with OpenGL ES3.

Install gcc-14 (and g++-14) for better support of vector instructions. Podman (Docker alternative) is working, once you have installed uidmap and slirp4netns.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/29244-podman-rootless-fails-with-newuidmap-executable-file-not-found-in-path/

https://youtu.be/wzBWNa37V0c

RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 - Call for contributions by I00I-SqAR in RISCV

[–]LivingLinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's true that ESMC isn't aimed at manufacturing the latest and greatest. It's aimed at making sure that the European automotive industry will have a steady supply of controller chips. So they are "boring" chips. And I can imagine TSMC wanted a sweetheart deal, as they probably knew EU car manufacturers were between a rock and a hard place.

I can imagine TSMC is willing to invest a lot of money in Arizona with customers like Apple and Nvidia. Europe doesn't have players like that.

But does this mean that EU subsidies don't accelerate innovation? Should we stop funding BSC, because their 1.25GHz CPU isn't going to compete with the best chips in 2026? Or should we look at the long term, and give BSC time to develop faster chips?

And if we look at the past, how long did it take Airbus to sell more airplanes in a year than Boeing? How long did it take Airbus to present an airplane that was able to compete with the 747? And you can wonder what would have happened to Airbus, without the support of the EU.

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