They're not show-stoppers compared to Western tech, but they could still be good workstations.
      • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        I would buy it. No US fed backdoors, just Chinese ones, and I’m not in China.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          You know, it’s sort of an interesting thought. If China uses my PC as part of some bot net that would suck, but that’s probably the worst that would happen. In the US though, the three letter agencies could “disappear” me. Not that I’m worth disappearing, but… I highly doubt China would send agents after me unless I visited and I don’t really plan on it.

  • fuzzywombat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    5 months ago

    This is not a good deal. First of all I highly doubt this mobo and CPU will be Windows 11 compatible so you’re out of luck there. For $373 you can find an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and mobo combo deal that will vastly outperform this Chinese CPU. Also AMD’s AM5 platform is DDR5 while this Chinese CPU and mobo combo is DDR4. $373 is a ridiculously non competitive price.

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        Me 😢

        I have a critical work app that will not run in wine or with proton.

        I’ve even contacted the devs and they suggested trying to run the android version on Linux, but it doesn’t work either.

        • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          5 months ago

          I have several for work that will likely never work in Linux.

          So those have a nice little VM they sit on, which has been stripped bare of the nonsense. Remote desktop access enabled, and I can do what I need whenever.

          • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            That’s pretty interesting, but it’s a meeting software. So I’m regularly sharing my screen and sharing files. So I need to be in the os. I’ll just key checking it every time a roster counts out for proton or the app I use.

            • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              That’s crazy, most meeting software I’ve seen is cross platform and have web clients.

              • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                4 months ago

                I know, it’s exactly how I feel about the situation.

                They are going to release a new version with monetization soon. Maybe that will be a big .0 release and maybe there will be a Linux version.

              • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                To share the bigger picture, I’m using this app 99% of my working hours. So it doesn’t make sense to do it this way.

                I’d be better off just working out of the vm but due to performance loss and dealing with passing through usb I just use windows.

                Although, outside of work I use Linux.

            • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              Ah, admittedly I avoid that problem entirely, I have an MTR, a ZR, etc running on devices here (hardware/software testing stuff), so I don’t need to run meetings on my desktop often.

              Edit: Just to note, I’ve done USB passthrough with VMs that were ZR builds and such, so that can be done. But I think if your sharing from there it can get messy (USB video capture and such as your sharing method, so on).

      • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        The majority of businesses and a lot of consumers. 46% of steam users. Few years it’ll be the majority.

      • Weslee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        I do, I’ve been trying to get off it and onto Bazzite but I tried to do a test run by installing it on my laptop before my pc and the boot loader won’t pick up the usb 😔

        I don’t feel comfortable doing it on my pc without first seeing it work, so it seems I’m stuck on windows

    • Kualk@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Give us some links for combo of motherboard, CPU and fan. I assume it needs a fan.

  • Kualk@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    5 months ago

    A few years from now we may be seeing US tariffs on these just like EVs today.

    China is developing fast and it took US trade war seriously.

      • breakingcups@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        It is. Originally they were a MIPS-like, then they licensed it and became MIPS-compatible, then they extended it into their own instruction set.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    Why would anyone want this? Maybe they are forcing Chinese nationals to buy them and inflate their popularity as a product for Papa CCP.

    • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I’m having a hard time finding a bullet point list of all it’s features.

      Some articles are telling me it’s a match for Haswell others are telling me it has AVX2. None of them seem that reliable. Do you happen to know?