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I am also starting to consider this for development, but I need more assurance that it is a viable option. Does everything mostly work out of the box, or would
by crayola 14y ago
I am also starting to consider this for development, but I need more assurance that it is a viable option.
Does everything mostly work out of the box, or would there be a lot of tinkering / troubleshooting required, e.g. because of the somewhat non-standard nature of running ubuntu on ARM architecture? What about drivers, e.g. for wifi and trackpad?
- ivany 14y agoAfter running debian on an ARM box for the past ~5 years, my experience has been pretty favorable. If there's a solid community following (which is a good bet with this product given the hype around it) the drivers should be a non-issue. Installation went very smoothly for me. Everything else, if it can get built from source, should be fine. On my box apt-get install "just works" for almost all of the software I use, and maybe 75% of make installs go smoothly with relatively little tinkering required. For getting actually work done, I use an x86 laptop. I wouldn't ever go back to using a netbook or any non-mainstream notebook with iffy linux support. It's just not worth your time to deal with technical issues. Buy the best tools that you can find (best being what works for you).
- mtgx 14y agoUbuntu is probably the most optimized distro for the ARM architecture out there. Canonical is really pushing support for ARM.