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Also, even a 10 year old x86 system is fine for web browsing and office tasks. If RISC-V hit that level, it’d be fine for many millions of people.

I discovered recently that a Raspberry Pi 5 would be faster than both my sister's and parents' PCs. Just a shame that all cheap ARM boards need proprietary kernels.

> Yeah they'll be slow but nothing can be slower than an x86 loaded with a Windows 11 or something on it.

I nearly spit out my tea laughing.

That's going to be hard to beat, yes..

Problem is in most schools here you only learn word-processing/data-entry on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office...

So youd have to convince a lot of people to learn other tools