What is a future of “x86-64-v1”?
I am a person, which is very seriously concerned about all this topic.
I am Lithuanian.
I made a public statment about this topic in my personal web site:
Just to be clear, this is in connection with Ubuntu’s introduction of x86-64-v3 packages?
If so, this is mostly related to Ubuntu and its packaging.
As of now, GNOME mostly provides its releases as source code. There are binary releases in form of the official Flatpaks and as part of GNOME OS, maybe a few more, but apart from that, the releases by GNOME are done as source code. The compilation to binary is done by the distributors.
So, you will always be able to try to compile GNOME’s sources on x86-64-v1.
That being said, as pointed out in this article, x86-64-v3 has been around for a decade now.
So pretty much all devices that have the performance required to run a modern GNOME desktop also should have x86-64-v3.
So, in my opinion as a bystander, in the context of GNOME this shouldn’t be that much of an issue.
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Thank You for an answer.
Yes: i left all Debian tree.
Because of “x86-64-v3” packages.
I fear, that a situation with all Linux then will be like with Windows: new, new, and new hardware for a support for each architecture and architecture’s operating system’s version.
I do not have so much money, that i could follow architectures changes and concluded operating systems requements.
This is why i choosen a “Gnome Operating System Nightly”, because it’s iso file had “x86_64” and i needed it fastly:
i was using Linux Mint, Ubuntu version Zara, at that late evening.
I then felt, that all Debian family tree is losing, because of introduction of “x86-64-v3” packages - not all people will be able to follow this “evolution” and hardware requerements…
I am 1 of these people.
So, i am with “Gnome Operating System Nightly” now and i am planning to stay with it while it will support “x86-64-v1”.
My main computer is from 2009 (not x86-64-v3) but it still works smoothly and perfectly with modern gnome desktop (I’m on Archlinux). So the "performance required” is much lower than you seem to suggest.
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From my personal point of view, a topic, very goes about money:
new architecture
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new operating system version
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new hardware.
For example - computer.
A question to a most wide audithority as possible:
…how much people in the world will be able to go with this wheel?..
…and are Linux becoming Windows 11?
I don’t understand something. From the article it’s said that v3 is not the default. So what’s the problem here?
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Will be.
That is a problem.
I am not sure you can expect hardware baselines to never change, especially on software maintained by volunteers.
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GNOME OS had an x86-64-v3 baseline till for 2-3 years now, up till couple months ago. Due to some recent infrastructure issues we had to switch off but it will eventually change back at some point in the future.
GNOME OS already required UEFI and TPM2 which makes it almost impossible that your hardware will have those requirements but not recent enough CPU instructions/x86_64-v3+.
The Flatpak runtime is currently built with a x86_64_v1 baseline due to its “run anywhere” nature, but don’t take it for granted and assume it will stay that way.
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