Best to look at RISC-V, then.
Proliferation of third party ARM designs is unlikely to ever happen now.
Proliferation of third party ARM designs is unlikely to ever happen now.
What I'm personally bothered about is the use of proprietary apps that are already provided for Linux on x86, and frankly no one will bother to build them for RISC-V.
Frankly apart from gamers it is not very common to use proprietary apps on Linux. I could still count my installed proprietary apps with my fingers if I was a limb amputee.
Gamers choose their hardware based on the games they want to play, not the opposite anyway so they are just not the target market.
Welcome to our pain in OpenPOWER world, though at least we have the weight of IBM to encourage some ports, and for the big Power chips emulation is still reasonably practical.