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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by mschuster91 on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:49PM (#50429783)
> because every past Rapsberry Pi thread has been inundated with comments encouraging everyone to get a NUC or a used computer instead.

The thing is, they are all x86. The currently available ways to get an ARM general purpose computer are... Raspberry, Raspberry clones of various degrees of shittyness, Apple's lineup and a few Chromebooks plus even rarer Windows systems that no one wants because nothing runs on them.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by andOlga on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:05PM (#50430070)
> Windows systems that no one wants because nothing runs on them

You might want to give Windows on Arm another spin if you haven't touched it lately, because you're either operating on very outdated information or you work in a very narrow field. Everything I tried throwing at it runs on mine. Exceptions are some drivers and kernel mode anticheat in games.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by mschuster91 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:13PM (#50430194)
They got 3% of market share [1]. That's laughable, no one tests for that, and I personally won't touch Qualcomm crap with a ten foot pole if I can avoid it.

[1] https://itdaily.com/blogs/workplace/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-pc...

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by bigyabai on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:18PM (#50430296)
They didn't dispute market share, they were just suggesting that the software deficiencies you were pointing out are outdated.
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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by cbm-vic-20 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:24PM (#50430397)
2027 is the year of the Linux.. er. ARM Windows desktop!
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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by copperx on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:22PM (#50430377)
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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by drnick1 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:19PM (#50431378)
x86 is generally better, because it's a standardized platform that is universally supported. With ARM you inevitably run into headaches if you expect to run an OS that isn't provided by the manufacturer.
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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by fg137 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:24PM (#50432388)
x86, so what? What's the problem you are trying to solve? Does arm or x86 matter for them?
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