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Actually, the rPi foundation have been extremely lazy about ARM64 support. The Pi 3 and newer support it (and I run 64bit Arch on mine), but Raspbian does not.

Actually, the rPi foundation have been extremely lazy about ARM64 support. The Pi 3 and newer support it (and I run 64bit Arch on mine), but Raspbian does not. I'd wager 95% of Pi users are stuck with 32-bit ARM software, as you have to go out of your way for ARM64 support.

brirec 6y ago
There is a beta build of Raspberry Pi OS (née Raspbian) in ARM64 available. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1668160 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1668160
- quaa55 6y ago
  This. plus fedora and arch/manjaro and many others have great aarch64 support. pinebook pro user here.
danieldk 6y ago
If I am counting correctly, nixpkgs (NixOS) Hydra currently builds 22369 packages successfully on AArch64. IIRC also 98% of Debian unstable builds on AArch64. So even though the rPi foundation may be slow (I don't know), the larger community has been working hard on making software build on AArch64.
sjellis 6y ago
To be fair, Raspbian is meant to support first-time users. They have explicitly said that they want to produce something that works for the widest range of hardware.