Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-20 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 02:43:44AM +, Edward Robbins wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 23:36, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: >> No candidate laptops I presume? > There is perhaps some day, this project is making slow but steady > progress. Looks like it may be crazy expensive in the end though >

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-03-21 at 00:16 +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > Would a Power-based machine in general, and a Raptor Blackbird in > particular, be a good freedom-respecting computer to run a Debian > desktop? RaptorCS devices in particular are quite good apparently. Other POWER devices are likely

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-20 Thread Edward Robbins
Hi Lionel, On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 23:36, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > > No candidate laptops I presume? > There is perhaps some day, this project is making slow but steady progress. Looks like it may be crazy expensive in the end though https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ Best, Ed > > Thanks

Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-20 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
Would a Power-based machine in general, and a Raptor Blackbird in particular, be a good freedom-respecting computer to run a Debian desktop? Or will I have "many" problems like the one described in https://www.talospace.com/2023/02/firefox-110-on-power.html that Firefox WebRTC doesn't work on Powe