Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?
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- Subject: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?
- From: Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:16:10 +0100
- Message-id: <ZBjpOtyrgn6tV8A/@piperine.mamane.lu>
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 Power?
I don't particularly want to get deep into being a porter, but I want
a good desktop to run XFCE, emacs, mutt, gdal, Firefox ESR, etc,
developing my pet software, maybe get back into LibreOffice (a beast
to compile...) development and/or become active as Debian package
maintainer again.
Is there any other Power-based machine that I should consider?
No candidate laptops I presume?
Thanks in advance for your advice,
--
Lionel
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