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by otabdeveloper4 1100 days ago
No, because aarch64 linux distros only became a viable thing just recently.

Who knows how many decades it will take for e.g. Debian to support RISC-V properly.

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I didn't downvote you; I think you make a reasonable, albeit exaggerated, point. I think it's also important to look through the lens that a lot of things linux supports are reverse engineered and that's why they take a long time to implement. This is de facto different with everything being open so I expect support will come faster. There's also the fact that this aligns better with the ideologies of a lot of free software enthusiasts so they may be more likely to work on it.