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Could get a pi5 if you want to play with ARM. The documentation and well maintained kernel are kinder to new devs. =)
by Joel_Mckay 2y ago
Could get a pi5 if you want to play with ARM.
The documentation and well maintained kernel are kinder to new devs. =)
- kennethrc 2y agoI play with ARM in the Day Jobs but the full laptop form-factor is really appealing
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoDepends on the use-case. In general, most reasonable ARM64 machines are not yet value competitive with the same priced intel+Nvidia_GPU laptops. Application support (MacOS or Win11 on ARM) is usually what hits hard in edge-cases people take for granted as working most of the time. Best of luck, =)
- kennethrc 2y agoLinux is my DD on Wintel (AlderLake); IIRC (K)Ubuntu have those same packages in ARMv8 (and gcc for the rest) so it should 99% be the same for me.
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoOn debian linux distros you will find most, but not all common amd64 packages can be found/built for aarch64. The porting issues are not as spotty as a few years back, but one should check your use-case won't be hit with 3D/codec issues or missing services. Recall qemu does ARM64 just fine... =3
- TiredOfLife 2y agoThe Snapdragon is only 4 times faster
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoLike many things in life, the value proposition of proprietary builds on over-valued hardware is irresistible to some folks. Really depends on the use-case, as some people find custom kernel driver development or maintenance fun. Have a great day =)
- kennethrc 2y agoThankfully I do! Ordered one, it's coming today. Since I have TotalTech if I completely hate it I've got something like two months to give up on it. I don't game so if I can pull it off I can leave my XPS at home; we'll see ....