Is there a decent low-cost RISC-V machine available yet, for testing stuff out on #Ubuntu desktop?
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/testing-applications-on-risc-v-hardware/77319?u=popey
Testing applications on RISC-V hardware

Hullo! I have a bunch of snaps that I publish in the store. While everything should work the same on all architectures, that’s not always the case. GPU & driver differences, and other library quirks, mean that testing on amd64 doesn’t automatically assume the same snap works on arm64, for example. I can test the apps on amd64 (ThinkPad running Ubuntu) and arm64 (MacBook Air running Ubuntu Asahi), and, at a push (if I dig out a Raspberry Pi), on armhf. Some of which are built for “interesting”...

Ubuntu Community Hub
@popey there isn’t even a high cost machine for testing desktop stuff yet.
@tj Brilliant response. Thank you. I will moderate my expectations :D
@popey like I’m totally super bitter about it (more so now I know you can get 160 core power 8 machines for £500), but it is a real problem for the future of the platform.

You need machines that can be a build farm of you want to expect a diverse package infrastructure.

Right now even looongarch is beating riscv at this.