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The official raspberry pi is super user friendly, and has a great community. But I feel like most of the HN crowd that has used linux before can manage to follo

The official raspberry pi is super user friendly, and has a great community. But I feel like most of the HN crowd that has used linux before can manage to follow the instructions to install Arch Linux ARM [0] on a very wide array of alternative devices. These other devices don't have the community support that the official pi does, but they are known devices with known configurations so they work pretty reliably. I'm mostly talking about odroid here because thats what I use. If you really like to "distro hop" on the pi, get a real pi. If you just want to run Arch, you got way more options, with added hardware options (eMMC, dual-nic, etc.) [0] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms

mkj 4y ago
Do you know if those are all using the same upstream kernel as the rest of Arch? If so that's a pretty useful list, it's hard to find. Even if rpi kernels aren't exactly upstream at least I can know the people paid to work on https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux are fairly responsive, and someone else will have hit an issue first.
- EnigmaCurry 4y ago
  yea, i think so - latest 5.17 - heres the package with a few patches https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/linux-aarch64/files https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/linux-aarch64/file...
metadat 4y ago
Do odroids come with the custom GPIO header pins? Arch vs Ubuntu and other common distros: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_compared_to_other_distributions https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_compared_to_other_dist...
- EnigmaCurry 4y ago
  yea, my odroid n2 has the same 40 pin header as the pi.
inferiorhuman 4y ago
Pi offers one huge advantage: form factor. If I get a Pi, there's a legion of cases and accessories to fit. I've got an ODROID C1 and it's fine for what it is, but when I wanted to find a nice case with a display I was basically SOL (this was years ago). The other big issue I had with the C1 is that it used some sort of bullet connecter for power. Pis use USB whatever, and I've got a lot more USB chargers laying around.
- EnigmaCurry 4y ago
  My pi seems very particular about which USB adapter I use. If I use the canna-kit provided one, it works great. If I use any lower amperage, it down throttles and shows that power fault icon in the upper right corner of the screenbuffer. So it might as well be a custom adapter because none of my other ones work correctly. The odroid N2 came with a fantastic OEM case that acts as a giant heatsink and easy slide cover, not to mention full size hdmi (I lost my special mini hdmi plug for my pi4) and all of the ports are on the same side!
- aulin 4y ago
  Pis are pretty picky about the charger you use. You need 5.1V with at least 2A if you don't want undervoltage warnings or worse. That basically rules out any spare USB charger you have lying around (they are 5V).
pasabagi 4y ago
Do you know if there's a board out there with two hdmi outs? If you want to make anything with two screens, it seems like the RPi4 is the only option.

mkj 4y ago

Do you know if those are all using the same upstream kernel as the rest of Arch? If so that's a pretty useful list, it's hard to find. Even if rpi kernels aren't exactly upstream at least I can know the people paid to work on https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux are fairly responsive, and someone else will have hit an issue first.

EnigmaCurry 4y ago
yea, i think so - latest 5.17 - heres the package with a few patches https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/linux-aarch64/files https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/linux-aarch64/file...

metadat 4y ago

Do odroids come with the custom GPIO header pins? Arch vs Ubuntu and other common distros: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_compared_to_other_distributions https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_compared_to_other_dist...

EnigmaCurry 4y ago
yea, my odroid n2 has the same 40 pin header as the pi.

inferiorhuman 4y ago

Pi offers one huge advantage: form factor. If I get a Pi, there's a legion of cases and accessories to fit. I've got an ODROID C1 and it's fine for what it is, but when I wanted to find a nice case with a display I was basically SOL (this was years ago). The other big issue I had with the C1 is that it used some sort of bullet connecter for power. Pis use USB whatever, and I've got a lot more USB chargers laying around.

EnigmaCurry 4y ago
My pi seems very particular about which USB adapter I use. If I use the canna-kit provided one, it works great. If I use any lower amperage, it down throttles and shows that power fault icon in the upper right corner of the screenbuffer. So it might as well be a custom adapter because none of my other ones work correctly. The odroid N2 came with a fantastic OEM case that acts as a giant heatsink and easy slide cover, not to mention full size hdmi (I lost my special mini hdmi plug for my pi4) and all of the ports are on the same side!
aulin 4y ago
Pis are pretty picky about the charger you use. You need 5.1V with at least 2A if you don't want undervoltage warnings or worse. That basically rules out any spare USB charger you have lying around (they are 5V).

pasabagi 4y ago

Do you know if there's a board out there with two hdmi outs? If you want to make anything with two screens, it seems like the RPi4 is the only option.