It one of reason why i don't like entire arm stack and ideas they put it in it. It wild garden without any standardised and closed gardgen of which vendor and mostly and the worst part is that most people are totally okay with it because 'the battery life is great. We are literally regressing thirty years in terms of hardware ownership. On x86, there’s an expectation of a 'common language' between the OS and the silicon, but the ARM ecosystem is a fragmented disaster of proprietary silos. Because there’s no UEFI and no ACPI for the vast majority of consumer ARM chips, the hardware can’t even describe itself to the operating system. You’re stuck relying on Device Trees hard-coded maps of the hardware that are almost always closed-source or trapped in some vendor’s stagnant 5.x kernel fork.
If the manufacturer decides to stop supporting your device, it doesn't matter if the silicon is still powerful; it becomes a paperweight because you can't just 'install a clean OS' on it. You’re a tenant on your own device, praying that some developer on a forum spends a year reverse-engineering the proprietary blobs just so you can get basic GPU acceleration or Wi-Fi working on a mainline kernel.
We’ve traded the 'General Purpose Computer' for a disposable appliance model. We’re letting vendors kill off the concept of standardized firmware in exchange for slightly better efficiency, and by the time people realize they don't actually own the 'stack' they paid for, it’ll be too late to demand an open standard. It’s a walled garden where the walls are made of undocumented registers and signed bootloaders that treat the owner like an intruder
Not much suitable for software development in normal classic way, all ur building tools u will have to run in distrobox or similar ways, u can disable read only file systems but it loose all point it basically just arch linux
Screen sharing of rustdesk on hyperfland/sway or others similars de are mess, things simply doesn't work, drag and drop between virtual box and host system is mess once it works once it not
It also has a very poorly written UI interface that's fucking infuriating. I was reverse engineering it to figure out why it's so damn slow on HDDs, with explorer.exe rendering like shit, the Start menu crawling, and taskbar popups that make you want to smash your screen. They wrote really really fucking bad code compared to the Win7 days—basically just took the old MFC crap and slapped a XAML wrapper on it to make it look "nice." What a fucking disaster.
No need move anywhere for now, Linux mint team will find out if telemetry or something else will enter to their distro,Linux mint doesn't have any telemetry so calm down
It one of reason why i don't like entire arm stack and ideas they put it in it. It wild garden without any standardised and closed gardgen of which vendor and mostly and the worst part is that most people are totally okay with it because 'the battery life is great. We are literally regressing thirty years in terms of hardware ownership. On x86, there’s an expectation of a 'common language' between the OS and the silicon, but the ARM ecosystem is a fragmented disaster of proprietary silos. Because there’s no UEFI and no ACPI for the vast majority of consumer ARM chips, the hardware can’t even describe itself to the operating system. You’re stuck relying on Device Trees hard-coded maps of the hardware that are almost always closed-source or trapped in some vendor’s stagnant 5.x kernel fork.
If the manufacturer decides to stop supporting your device, it doesn't matter if the silicon is still powerful; it becomes a paperweight because you can't just 'install a clean OS' on it. You’re a tenant on your own device, praying that some developer on a forum spends a year reverse-engineering the proprietary blobs just so you can get basic GPU acceleration or Wi-Fi working on a mainline kernel.
We’ve traded the 'General Purpose Computer' for a disposable appliance model. We’re letting vendors kill off the concept of standardized firmware in exchange for slightly better efficiency, and by the time people realize they don't actually own the 'stack' they paid for, it’ll be too late to demand an open standard. It’s a walled garden where the walls are made of undocumented registers and signed bootloaders that treat the owner like an intruder