[The_Colonel]

> actually useful

Except it's a custom ISA (fork of MIPS). It could be fine for Chromebook-like use cases (basically web browser machine), but not really for anything more serious ...

[gbin]

I guess you mean on the desktop? If this thing runs linux, it is as serious as everything that can run Linux.

[Rediscover]

OpenBSD has a history of supporting the Loongson arch. https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html

[The_Colonel]

Only some Chinese distros support it. For a lot of serious things, you will need to have binary support - commercial software, docker etc.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

That's why they have:

LoongBT, faster x86 and ARM binary translation, 213 instructions