Huge fan of risk-v and massively overwhelmed by analysis paralysis. I‘m in the market for risc-v hardware to develop on and play around with.
After some consideration, I will get an sbc for the hard tinkering and low level stuff and I‘m thinking of getting a tablet for regular use (browing, ebook reading, controlling smart home devices) as well as development and packaging stuff.
My reasoning for using dev hardware on a daily basis is that for myself to be able to use features, I need apps which I am incentivised to compile and package for risc-v.
I‘ve seen very promising risc-v videos but I‘m not sure what to expect from a tablet. To add to that the pinetab v is out of stock which was a strong candidate.
I know there is the new tablet from deepcomputing but its in preorder and the shipping to germany is pretty expensive. (100$ plus). The HD display is pretty awesome compared to the pinetab v but afaik the pinetab comes with accessories.
Any experience with risc-v tablets and which other offers do you consider good?
Don’t have a risc tablet but the consideration is the same as any other type of chip: what distro are you using and do the apps you want to use offer packages or source code for it? Before ARM took off this was the same problem. I was able to run an ARM version of Debian that had most packages I wanted and for others I could find precompiled ARM deb packages, but for a non-zero number I couldn’t find any and would have to compile from source code if available.
You’re gonna run into the same issue here, unless you find a lot of precompiled packages for what you want. Expect to do a lot of your own compiling.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. That is completely within the acceptable range for me. I am fully prepared to compile and tinker.
I guess I was hoping for someone saying: „I did it with THIS risc v tablet and it works great“ or „there is a problem that you will not overcome likely at this point in time“ like the cameras in postmarketOS are a roadblock rn.
Ah my bad. Sadly I don’t have any experience there. Good luck though. Sounds like a fun project!