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Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by floatboth on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:26AM (#20420970)
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 It's newbie-oriented and extremely annoying for Unix geeks anyway (Debian base with its always-outdated packages, etc)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)

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Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by 0815test on Friday July 12, 2019 @11:22AM (#20421339)
How is Debian annoying for Unix geeks? If outdated packages are an issue, you can always install stable backports, or stuff from testing/unstable.
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Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit by kurtisc on Friday July 12, 2019 @12:08PM (#20421723)
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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