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It's more that all the instructions you'll find assume raspberry pi os as it is the hardware. If there was more diversity of OS in everyday use you might see mo
by regularfry 3y ago
It's more that all the instructions you'll find assume raspberry pi os as it is the hardware. If there was more diversity of OS in everyday use you might see more fragmentation.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agoOne of the other aspects of the RPi I think deserves more credit is the ability to easily boot into a variety of OS. Ideally I prefer to boot from USB or the network, but SDCard is still better than nothing. For some strange reason people try to use an SDCard in r/w mode after boot, treatng it like primary storage. IME, that is a recipe for failure. I prefer to boot to RAM. Then I might mount external storage device if I need it, but certainly not an SDCard. Now, maybe the setup I choose is more difficult on one OS than on another. This is where RPi shines, IMO. As a project creator, I can use an OS I choose from among a variety that have been ported to the RPi, including non-popular ones, and I know every RPi user can easily run it because it's been already been pre-installed on SDCard; the RPi is not OS-specific. No pre-installtion of OS! (This pre-installation practice enabled Microsoft to stifle competition and hold back progress in computing for decades.) Prior to RPi, many SBC only had GNU/Linux as an OS choice because that's what's popular. For example, prior to the RPi port running Plan9 required careful hardware purchasing choices. Choosing RPi, a well-known brand, is arguably much easier.