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RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is a license-free, modular, extensible instruction set architecture (ISA).

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When dealing with ARM and RISC-V devices one constant I see is that distros or devs will make a specific image for a device. This image usually lacks a few things I am used to. On X86 the norm is to have an installer where I can make many choices such as whether to have full disk encryption, choose which DE I want, choose which device to install to (such as NVME) and choose my filesystem type. Does any distro do this for any RISC-V board ?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I found that Debian supports ARM pretty well with flexibility, but a lot of people bitch that Debian is “too old” because it’s actually stable. I could also generally find DEBs for any package I needed that wasn’t in a repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, you're going to have to DIY that. ARM and RISC-V aren't as streamlined as x86

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Need a mainline kernel to support the SoC. Generic ARM distribution only came then. It will take time for RISC-V as well.