I can only speak for myself, but abandoning x86 isn’t something that I could have done if I hadn’t first cleaned my hands of my old gaming habit.
On the technical end, if you’re already using some Linux distro, you’re already half way there. Just use the installation media for ppce64el or riscv64 instead of the usual amd64.
Those suffixes in the installation images denote for which CPU architecture the image’s binaries had been compiled for. In short, yes, they will only install and run on their respective hardware.
Unless you just want to fire them up in a virtual machine simulating the relevant CPU architecture.
I am a braindead normie… How feasible is to even make that switch at this point?
I can only speak for myself, but abandoning x86 isn’t something that I could have done if I hadn’t first cleaned my hands of my old gaming habit.
On the technical end, if you’re already using some Linux distro, you’re already half way there. Just use the installation media for ppce64el or riscv64 instead of the usual amd64.
Can install it on regular processor or does it require new hardware?
Those suffixes in the installation images denote for which CPU architecture the image’s binaries had been compiled for. In short, yes, they will only install and run on their respective hardware.
Unless you just want to fire them up in a virtual machine simulating the relevant CPU architecture.