Ubuntu Core, to be specific.
Comment on The Way Ubuntu Boots on Raspberry Pi is Changing
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
People run Ubuntu on their Pis?
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The Linux distro that requires you to create an account on their platform?
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
“Requires to create an account” for what exactly? I’m a long term Ubuntu user without any Ubuntu one account.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
gross.
bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I do on some of mine because it makes some of the automation i have for them simpler to maintain when it is also applied to x86 hardware or virtual machines. It used to be a huge pain to use on a pi but it works pretty well these days, especially since about 24.04 I want to say.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, I always run Raspbian.
excess0680@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is probably a hot take, but:
I disagree. The OS doesn’t run a mainline kernel, and the Raspberry Pi devs recommend a clean slate on OS upgrades. Granted, they do some trickery for performance with their Zero (not 2) line, using armhf instead of the slower armel, but this doesn’t excuse the fact that Raspberry Pi OS is so brittle. The builds are also still on 32-bit, even though every Pi since 3B can run 64-bit OSes.
I just run Debian on mine. Can’t be assed to clean flash my devices each major update.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The SOC also isn’t fully open, so you won’t get top tier performance with a purely FOSS stack. I push the limits on mine (Retropie mostly), so using their OS is the better bet (I use the one shipped by Retropie, which is super old).
I actually kinda hate the Raspberry Pi because of how closed it is. It’s gotten a bit better over the years, but the Pi 5 took a big step back. But unfortunately, its competitors aren’t much better, so I still use my RPis, but I probably won’t buy more.
I’m also not a fan of Debian in general, so if I switched, I would probably use openSUSE or Arch instead (I tried Arch, but it had issues syncing to disk after updates; they fixed that, but it shows that other distros will be a bit wonky). Raspbian works, so I stick with it.
excess0680@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s very fair. Everyone has a different use for Pi’s, and I just happen to favor long-lived devices that can be updated easily. I wish more of the pi internals were upstreamed too.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I understood half of the things you said, but i run DietPi on mine.
It has 64-bit support, you can update the os without resetting everything, still based on the original kernels for the closed source optimizations, but removes all the clunky and slow parts, leaving a very lightweight and fast os.
Plus, for newbies (like me) it has a decent built-in installer for various software with minimal ulterior setup required.
excess0680@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It sounds like you’ve found your ideal distro. Great! Not everyone will have the same exact use case for their Pi’s.
I’m just a little disgruntled because I like treating my Pi’s as headless servers, often with a single purpose, and I don’t want to have to erase the SD cards to upgrade versions.
confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
My frustration with Raspberry Pi OS is that the packages available were constantly out of date. Some were 2 to 3 years out of date.
I eventually started using Alpine linux on my Pi boards and have been happy since then. Now I can use the latest Docker and Podman packages without manually adding new repositories.
If I didn’t prefer Alpine’s minimal approach, I would have probably gone with Debian because of it’s history in stability.
excess0680@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I believe you may have found your ideal OS. Debian will always lag behind ever so often. And that’s okay. We all use the Pi’s for different reasons.
ProfessorStrawberry@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s also 64 since 2 years I believe.
excess0680@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The devs have started releasing 64-bit builds since then, yes. However, they still push people to the 32-bit builds: www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/
I understand their thinking. They want a unified build experience, to simplify their development and user experience.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Same.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Isnt Raspberry PIOS debian based?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yup.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Sry morning brain fart. Read it’s ubuntu based