You let buy Intel laptops and run Nvidia proprietary drivers and pray to the RISCV gods that somehow in some way that they will deliver a viable Linux platform in about 5 years or so . There has been a campaign to destroy the efforts of people that are releasing as openaspossible hardware platforms because of Allwinner violating copyrights . Yet these people never offer any sort of alternative or better solution and do some handwaving about cpus or chips that either don ' t exist yet , cannot actually be purchased , or are actually more closed . The most important consideration people should use right now is how open the system is . There are people right now releasing Allwinner systems with full engineering specs and CAD files . This stuff is the equivalent of source code for hardware . There isn ' t anything else that comes close in terms of openness . It ' s a huge fucking mistake to destroy the most open platform available for Linux users right now because of armchair GPL lawyering . It ' s like eating your young . Pine 64 stuff probably sucks . It doesn ' t make sense it is so cheap . So buyer beware . But there are other people who are releasing the real deals .