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floatboth on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit

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 It's newbie-oriented and extremely annoying for Unix geeks anyway (Debian base with its always-outdated packages, etc)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)

0815test on July 12, 2019 | [–]

How is Debian annoying for Unix geeks? If outdated packages are an issue, you can always install stable backports, or stuff from testing/unstable.

kurtisc on July 12, 2019 | [–]

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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