Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?
Lionel Élie Mamane dijo [Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:59:08AM +0100]:
> > If you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 - it woill work as a small desktop,
> > more or less silently. To fit extra disks you'll need an add on case
> > - something like the Argon which will take NVME. There are
> > bottlenecks. It's still essentially a phone SOC. It's not *free*
> > because blobs and if you want peripherals, you more or less are tied
> > to running Raspberry Pi OS.
>
> What ties me into Raspberry Pi OS for peripherals? Non-free drivers
> and/or firmware that cannot get into Debian, or just "it is not
> packaged for Debian because nobody did the work but could be"?
Most of what you need from a Raspberry in terms of using it as "just"
a computer, you will be getting from a standard Debian install.
You will want to look at RaspberryOS if you want to work with specific
"hats", with some electronics-oriented buses, or such. I don't know
the current status of video acceleration, but if I understand
correctly, it is (beginning to be) supported in mainline kernels.
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