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by RuggedPineapple 906 days ago
The Pi (at least 1-4, haven't looked at 5) has an extremely weird set up where the GPU actually boots the system using a binary blob before handing it over to the CPU. When mainstream linux was first beginning to support the Pi this caused a lot of issues. One of which was that GPU acceleration was not available. It was in the Pi foundation's own distro (Raspbian/RaspberryPi OS) but not in others. One of the first to get it working was Gentoo. I really, really wanted to get Open Morrowind working so I tried it for a while.

Then I had to re-emerge a software package to change my timezone and I was just done. Thats way more complicated then it should be or needs to be.