Comment on Jeff Geerling: "Raspberry Pi 5: Everything you need to know"

• Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be frank at this point. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has a well-established brand name and decent communities Etc. But that doesn’t make up for a lot of the faults. The closed video system with binary blogs and unavailable specifications or availability of copper open source drivers. Leading to wildly different performance from distribution to distribution simply based on who managed to a corporate they proprietary drivers into their distribution. And now the open flirtation with major commercial players as embedded compute units. Making them largely unavailable to the group they were designed for.

  I might still get a Raspberry Pi 5. But only the one. All previous generations I had bought two or more of them for various uses. But I was seriously looking at things like the lechee pie4 recently. I think ultimately for the future the way to go is going to be the riscv system. The ISA has been around for roughly a decade at this point though only in the last few years has actual Hardware been getting mass produced and at first it couldn’t really approach even Raspberry Pi levels of performance. The ones coming out right now easily can. And it’s only going to get better with the rapid adoption and development of it.

  If the foundation does not focus back on the educational and obvious markets. They are going to lose it. And that may be okay for them. With their other commercial Partners they’ve been selling to over recent years they seem to favor them more anyways.

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