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0 pointsmarcan_425y ago0 comments

Actually, the rPi foundation have been extremely lazy about ARM64 support. The Pi 3 and newer support it (and I run 64bit Arch on mine), but Raspbian does not. I'd wager 95% of Pi users are stuck with 32-bit ARM software, as you have to go out of your way for ARM64 support.

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brirec5y ago· 1 in thread

There is a beta build of Raspberry Pi OS (née Raspbian) in ARM64 available. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1668160

quaa555y ago

This. plus fedora and arch/manjaro and many others have great aarch64 support. pinebook pro user here.

microtonal5y ago

If I am counting correctly, nixpkgs (NixOS) Hydra currently builds 22369 packages successfully on AArch64. IIRC also 98% of Debian unstable builds on AArch64.

So even though the rPi foundation may be slow (I don't know), the larger community has been working hard on making software build on AArch64.

sjellis5y ago

To be fair, Raspbian is meant to support first-time users. They have explicitly said that they want to produce something that works for the widest range of hardware.

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