People run Ubuntu on their Pis?
The Way Ubuntu Boots on Raspberry Pi is Changing
Submitted 2 days ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu-raspberry-pi-boot-process-change
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pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yeah, I always run Raspbian.
excess0680@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Same.
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Ubuntu Core, to be specific.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The Linux distro that requires you to create an account on their platform?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
gross.
bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 days ago
This is fine, but I ditched Ubuntu on my raspberry pi’s when they kept breaking DNS by changing my network configuration with every upgrade.
SofiaPet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Leave it to Canonical.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
These kind of changes will go a long way towards making it more accessible for the less technically inclined. Glad to see some actual progress in that direction, instead of the standard ‘got good’ style of Linux gatekeeping.