<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 3:16 PM Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div>The advantage of a Pi isn't the performance, but the popularity.<br><div><div><br></div><div>I've
owned another non-pi ARM board, which required it's own out-of-tree
patches and basically became ewaste once newer
products came along.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Pis are very popular,
leading to a lot of eyes and hands getting things upstream. A lot of Pi images are widely cross-compatible between old & new devices, as well as variants (Zero, etc). There's also
projects like the Pi4 UEFI loader that let generic arm distros be used, meaning I don't need to try to find a specific Pi version of whatever OS I want to use (Fedora Server, in my case). I can download and run an installer just like on any x86 system.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree with Chris.</div><div><br></div><div>Once I found Ubuntu for ARM runs on the Pi, and installed it, I never looked back.</div><div>No more Raspbian or anything else. Just the regular Ubuntu Server that I run on my servers. <br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin</div></div>