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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 04:18:06 JST minute

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   • Thom Holwerda
   • Gianni Rosato

   @gianni @thomholwerda @alyssa @marcan genuine question: are our (MNT's) efforts uninteresting in this context? we care a lot about stability and graphics on our laptops—currently still imx8mq and imx8mp, but i'm looking forward to integrate rk3588 and a311d in the coming months. and our products are OSHW, so everyone is invited to help making them more mainstream compatible.

   • Gianni Rosato (gianni@disobey.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 04:18:08 JST Gianni Rosato

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     • Thom Holwerda

     @thomholwerda
     I think a proper ARM-based Linux laptop is possible in the next 10 years, & I actually think it's the only way to compete with Apple Silicon in laptops.
     @alyssa @marcan

   • Thom Holwerda (thomholwerda@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 04:18:10 JST Thom Holwerda

     @alyssa @marcan I fully agree there's tons of problems in the Linux world with vendors being terrible at supporting their devices on Linux. I don't think anyone disputes that (still waiting on a proper ARM Linux laptop that isn't from Apple!).

     My issue was with the wording and optics of the original post, which seemed to imply *only* Asahi cares about getting stuff to work properly, which seems like spitting in the faces of the hundreds (thousands?) of Linux developers who have done and are...