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by kurtisc 2533 days ago
Shortly after the Pi 4 was released I looked into it and found that, for the Pi 3 at least, the foundation weren't really interested. It essentially adds another distro for them to maintain. It's a shame.
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floatboth 2533 days ago
It's not like anyone is forced to use their distro. It's newbie-oriented and extremely annoying for Unix geeks anyway (Debian base with its always-outdated packages, etc)

You don't even have to run Linux at all. FreeBSD/aarch64 works great on a Pi3 (as a headless server at least, VC4 is not ported)

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0815test 2533 days ago
How is Debian annoying for Unix geeks? If outdated packages are an issue, you can always install stable backports, or stuff from testing/unstable.
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kurtisc 2533 days ago
True but the newbies will slowly drift away from all the projects that don't want to split focus from aarch64.
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