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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 1/11/25 2:50 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:00:04 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>
>>>     So, for now, Manjaro and some Fedora. No one has yet made a clean
>>>     Just Works port of Fedora for the Pi-5 alas ... something's WEIRD
>>>     about that unit. They should drop it and make a "Pi4-Ultra" instead
>>>     with a peppier version of that chip.
>> 
>> There's a new Pi 5 version with 16GB of RAM. It's not clear what the use
>> case is. Windows on ARM?
>
>  There's clearly something very convoluted about the
>  way the CPU and maybe some peripherial chips start
>  up on the Pi5. You could run many Linux distros on
>  Pi's up thru the Pi4. Then ... the factory Deb deriv
>  is pretty much IT unless you wanna suffer a lot.
>
>  If you've ever watched a Pi update, note ALL the
>  damned messages about special fix-ups and kernel
>  hacks - I mean there's LOTS of them. The BCM2712
>  do NOT boot smooth like earlier versions. I'll
>  still say the Pi3s were the "most generally useful".
>
>  As for the 16gb ... well, if it's not TOO much more
>  expensive, may as well have it. However 4gb has
>  always been more than enough for anything I've
>  wanted to do with a Pi. Even the ancient 250mb
>  ones worked OK with Linux - though I never tried
>  OpenSUSE/KDE on a Pi-1.
>
>  I did turn one into a muzak system though - 4 hour
>  loops of 'mall/elevator music' from the 70s that
>  would switch once a month. Ran for like a dozen
>  years ... probably still is, unless somebody finally
>  found where I hid it and smashed the thing with
>  a hammer  :-)
>

I have a raspberry pi 3 still going strong as a TV computer after probably 
7-8 years or so. The only problem is that my father forcefully unplugs it 
every time he vacuum cleans, so every couple of years the memory card gets 
corrupted and I have to do a full format/reinstall. But that doesn't take 
long, and since it is only every couple of years and not an important 
computer, that's ok.