Well, today it is only Ubuntu 25.10 and newer that require RVA23. Almost everything else will run on plain old RV64GC which this board handles no problem.
But you are correct that once RVA23 chips begin to appear, everybody will move to it quite quickly.
RVA23 provides essentially the same feature-set as ARM64 or x86-64v4 including both virtualization and vector capabilities. In other words, RVA23 is the first RISC-V profile to match what modern applications and workflows require.
The good news is that I expect this to remain the minimum profile for quite a long time. Even once RVA30 and future profiles appear, there may not be much pressure for things like Linux distributions to drop support for RVA23. This is a lot like the modern x86-64 space where almost all Linux distributions work just fine on x86-64 v1 even though there are now v2, v3, and v4 available as well. You can run the latest edition of Arch Linux on hardware from 2005. It is hard to predict the future but it would not surprise me if Ubuntu 30.04 LTS ran just fine on RISC-V hardware released later this year.
But ya, anything before RVA23, like the RVA22 Titan we are discussing here, will be stuck forever on older distros or custom builds (like Ubuntu 25.04).
China and Russia are likewise involved in their own genocides (Uyghurs and Ukraine respectively), and they are just as interested in developing centralised systems of control. They will not give the world truly free and open platform.
"They will not give the world truly free and open platform", uhuhu!, but we are giving them the pivot point to claim the flag of freedom , rather than just doing that ourselves.
also, one more move from you know who, and a whole lot of countrys will have to very seriously start looking for stable deals that last longer than it takes the ink to dry. China just ghosted nvidia, on the "something 200" ai chip to start shipping in march, tsmc and all there suppliers have stood down on that, and will of course, instantly re focus on the next job, which might be a batch of chips for fairphones....
I have T14s Gen 3 AMD for almost 2 years now, Linux support is great and it's the best laptop I've ever owned. It wasn't the latest model at the time of purchase, I got it off Ebay sale.
Is there a significant benefit for programming in going from 4K to 6K on a 32" display? I'm currently on 27" 1440p and looking for more screen estate for my neovim setup.
On macOS too. On both operation systems 99% apps do though. Maybe its 99.9% on macOS vs 99.8% on Windows. But I'm using HiDPI on both and it was a long time ago that I encountered an app that didn't support it.
This is where EU should step in and force the right to replace the storage (hell even RAM) onto laptop manufacturers. And if Apple doesn't comply, then good riddance.
GNOME is indeed annoying, but Plasma is a flagship Linux desktop experience, which has become self-evident with it's adoption by Valve for SteamOS as well as increasing number of newer distributions choosing it as default.
So the main difference between this Milk-V Titan and the upcoming SpacemiT K3 is that the latter has better vector performance?