Next is Web5.

Disregard HTML, CSS, JS and other nonsense; Embrace RISC-V machine code.

The default Amiga 500 configuration can handle that.

Point winuae to kickstart rom dir, insert the cannon fodder floppy images into the virtual drives and fire it up. It just works.

But it can be overwhelming to people who aren't familiar with the Amiga.

It is indeed a mistake to target Linux, as it guarantees the majority of effort will be spent tracking Linux, rather than working on the filesystem itself.

There are far better options such as FUSE or the filesystem APIs in other operating systems like Netbsd, Haiku, Genode or even ReactOS (and Windows NT).

Some of the best filesystems such as OpenZFS, HAMMER2 or Lustre are developed outside of Linux.

>Why can't these older processors be supported via a software shim for unrecognised instructions?

It can.

It's just this shim is out of scope for Ubuntu.

Refer to opensbi instruction emulation.

>It is far better for software to run with a couple of percent slowdown on old cpus only than not run at all.

With features like vector instructions or pointer masking, we're talking a non-trivial slowdown.

We never recovered from Eternal September.

The internet, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age... before the dark times, before the aol.

Linux was big back then.

Nowadays, you'd have a better experience on Netbsd, which still has developers who care about its Amiga support.

PCMCIA network cards work (whereas Linux got rid of PCMCIA entirely) and so does X11 (currently dead on Linux).

Running Netbsd current on my A1200 with 030@50, 128MB RAM.

Is that kind of setup still usable for some kind of desktop computing or only for command line stuff ?

128MB RAM sounds huge for the early 90s - win 3.1 and word / excel of the time could fly with much less. Is the lack of hardware floating point support an issue to run modern apps ?

The speed difference with current systems is mind boggling. The original A1200 CPU is 2,000 to 5,000 times slower than a random N100 setup. one second wait nowadays means one hour delay on the A1200. This shows how much software bloat accumulated.

Not gonna be running chrome or firefox there, that's for sure.

But there are otherwise thousands of X11 applications to run.

Yes, the bloat is unfathomable. Relative to how fast and clean AmigaOS and emuTOS are, on the same hardware.

X11 isn't even remotely dead on Linux. It's being used all over the place.

Certainly not on Amiga hardware.

Loads of people use it on x86.

If you re-read above, you might figure out this is about X11 on Linux on the m68k Amiga platform, specifically.

Which is broken, and has been for years now.

Whereas it works on Netbsd, thanks to patches written by Netbsd developers.

I am hopeful they will eventually be upstreamed to XLibre.

>...or everyone will move to something else - ANYTHING else - because we don't want to replace our brand new devices just to run Ubuntu.

Everyone now is nobody tomorrow.

Right now, the few RISC-V boards are in the hands of developers and enthusiasts.

In the future, RISC-V will continue to grow, into mass-market.

Ubuntu recognizes the importance of being able to fully take advantage of RVA23, a fully capable ISA comparable to x86-64v4 and ARMv9.

Salespeak ;)

Most likely the latter, based solely on price.

For now, perhaps. But within time the vast majority of users of the Switch 2 will be children (for some value of “are teenagers children”) - our first switch was bought for me, but the other ones are definitely kids toys (and they’ve overtaken ours, too).

But even a five year old can understand “use this charger/connect and it charges fast, that other one is very slow, and this one doesn’t work.”

It’s way more annoying to the parents.

> But even a five year old can understand “use this charger/connect and it charges fast, that other one is very slow, and this one doesn’t work.”

It's funny to consider the layers upon layers of abstraction modern children are taught as common sense. Putting water in a container is one thing, but charging a battery must be downright metaphysical at that age.

>I have been annoyed on my ps5 dualsense controller

I have ds and ds pro, no problem with either.

(I own no PS4 or PS5)

Probably some unintentional, accidental incompatibility rather than by design.