I know it. I’m literally typing this on a Raspberry Pi. I used to run Arch Linux on it, but Arch Linux on ARM has severe issues. It’ll literally go months with no package updates.
One day I’ll get brave and switch it to Gentoo. Just need to put together a build server first.
I have had great success running NixOS on my Pi. You can build software on your main computer and remote deploy with SSH :)
Does the cross compilation work fine? I’ve had some issues in the past building on macOS for x64.
Yes. I only have one extra line in my configuration:
boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = [ "aarch64-linux" ];Which compiler?
It’s been a while. I can’t even really remember which language. Now that I think of it, it might have been C#.
Major or minor?
Core. I’m a software architect, not a musician 💖
The maintainer for ALARM literally went on vacation and never came back. All commits are automations on the GitHub account. That’s why Asahi switched to Fedora.
SteamOS on the Frame may soon alleviate some of those woes, given it’s based on Arch and has an ARM processor iirc. Can’t hurt, anyhow.
Usually those are from python rebuilds which clog the other packages for weeks at a time. Maybe they could use your build server.
Python rebuilds don’t cause (noticeable) problems for AMD64 Arch Linux.
And any time anyone offers any kind of help on the Arch Linux Arm forums to try to help resolve the issue, the admins ignore and/or lock the thread. They’re not open to help and the people on the forums are super frustrated about it.
They’re literally a major cause of not getting package updates (even on standard arch they occasionally hold updates due to it), if that’s unnoticeable then so be it.
And yeah, I stopped trying to participate on the forums. Never managed to even get a response there. Would be great if they would be welcoming support in any shape (or even consistent communication when the build server is gonna be clogged for a while again so they don’t need to annoyingly answer the same questions…)
I want to quit my day job so I can focus on ARM power mode support in Linux
I would like you to.
I wish I was smart enough to even consider this
Good news: you could just financially support me!
Bad news… no couldn’t lol. Bearly got myself!
That’s OK, I can just take everything left over and whatever else you can scrape together after making a number of hard sacrifices.
The biggest performance boost from an upgrade in the last two decades was switching from a Western Digital VelociRaptor HDD to a Samsung 840EVO SATA SSD. That was going from 6ms to 0.06 ms random access latency.
The performance boost from switching from Windows to Linux wasn’t perceivable even on Gentoo where I literally compiled for the exact hardware, I had and used a custom debloated monolithic kernel. But it got me a massive boost in user agency and freedom of choice.
You can’t beat two orders of magnitude reaction latency reduction with an OS change. Windows is bloated. But it’s not that bloated (at least Windows XP, 7, and 10 weren’t; didn’t try 11).
I play on Gentoo btw.You sound like you’re talking about application run performance. That shouldn’t be noticeably different. Startup and application load time tend to be where the gains are.
Depends on application and hardware. On pretty low specs you can see larger differences between operating systems.
Fair
Ya, I recently got into computer building and essentially came to that conclusion.
Hand to God I wish I got into Linux 6 years ago before I bought my current gaming laptop. I would have been perfectly glad to keep rocking my old Lenovo, I loved that little beast of a laptop.
I kept my Win 7 lappy, also a Lenovo, going until the backlight started dying.
Same… All the flash drive stuff and program incompatibility had scared me for too long… But now I’m not afraid to, like, even go to estate sales and try to find a dirt-cheap, old machine to slap Linux on and run it down into the ground until the next one lol. I can live without Cyberpunk 2077.
My ThinkPad be like:
- Core i7
- 16 GB RAM
- 256 GB SSD
- Manjaro Linux
- 4th gen Intel platform
Ok? not even remotely impressive
dat ssd is doing a lot of the liftin here hehe
Even without the SSD the things only really slow down when you’re booting or loading up an application for the first time. Linux’s RAM caching is really nice.
Can I request something here (it’s off-topic) if it’s okay ? Can someone recommend me videos of people debunking & exposing Bryan Lunduke for the fraud that he is ??
Yeah bro 12yo refurbished MSI laptop with Mint+Plasma keeps chugging along
I pretty much only make it do documents and YouTube but still
_ Linux T PC' `SSD
