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.
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 💖
Yes. I only have one extra line in my configuration:
boot.binfmt.emulatedSystems = [ "aarch64-linux" ];
Yocto and compile it all yourself. Arch people might think they are cool because they have to use a console to install their de but creating the devicetree for your board and then only get a console over a serial connection or ssh is the true linux experience.
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.
ARM is kinda lacking the hardware to motivate developers, I think. Raspberry Pi generally has good support for server stuff, but I don’t think you could really justify desktop use before maybe 2019 (release of rpi 4 with much faster CPU and more RAM), and Android devices are generally really locked down.
Never mind the absolute ocean of ARM SoCs, not to mention Apple’s silicon
Those SoCs usually have one distro with a patched out of date kernel and overall lacking support of upstream drivers to install an off the shelf distro.
Arm devices are notoriously closed. Apple silicon is an extreme example, where it only works thanks to reverse engineering the HW.
And each of these SoCs requires people, ideally the manufacturer, to actually put in the work to make the hardware work on Linux. So many SBCs with severely outdated kernels …
I suppose ARM really missed the mark by not establishing a universal power framework.
If the SOC makers want their hardware to be popular for longer, they really need to add mainline kernel support.
I looked at them as a tinkering platform. But I don’t want to buy something which is probably abandoned in a few months.They don’t give a shit about hobbyists. We don’t give them contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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.
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.
I kept my Win 7 lappy, also a Lenovo, going until the backlight started dying.
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.
If I/O latency is bad enough it can affect runtime performance from game FPS to browser “snappiness”
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.
I wonder if my PC counts as low end by now. I reckon I got a few more years until then.
Gamers think everything without a dedicated GPU is low end. I play games on Intel HD from 2018. Most work tolerably. I’m not switching until my laptop falls apart or it becomes fully obsolete (to slow to do my productivity tasks).
It has a hyperthreaded quad-core. While it has less than half of the benchmark scores of modern PCs, it’s still better than any used laptops you could get under 300€ (looking at you EU used hardware taxes (also, the taxes conveniently avoid the US … How did that happen)).
I am a gamer and can confirm. For gaming, iGPU is objectively low-end. Doesn’t mean, you can’t play games on it. Current iGPUs are probably better than what games were made to run on two decades ago.
I did have fun playing a selected set of games on an iGPU a decade ago. Dedicated GPUs just give you more pixels, more textures, more shader quality, more geometry, more FPS, and nowadays more AI inference capabilities. Some game genres profit a lot, some don’t at all.Factorio ClusterIO megabase with only an iGPU and a pile of rack servers for running all your instances - “Objectively low end”
Its basically a CPU benchmark disguised as a game.
The new Intel ARC iGPUs in the H series are actually great and in my opinion could compete with dGPUs. But I’m too poor to even try them.
Every config is a low end config on an infinite time scale, haha.
Except the last one
TBH most day-to-day stuff still works well on my 12yo mid-tier laptop. I feel pretty good about upgrading its RAM from 8 to 16 last year, mostly to keep up with my multi-tab webbrowsing habits.
Yup, i have a mid 2012 mbp with linux mint xfce and it runs great. My biggest complaint is the hardware support. Had to add a usb wifi dongle because broadcom chip was constantly dropping and the sleep wake takes forever and sometimes it wont sleep. But otherwise runs like a champ. I do kinda wish it would die so i could get a laptop without the sleep/wake issues.
I run a 1 year newer mbp with fedora and my main drag is standby voltage. Even if the laptop is shutdown the battery will drain (batt 2 yrs old). Other than that, it still does everything you could possibly ask of it.
How much runtime do you get out of the battery? Mine still has the original, runs about 1 - 1.5hrs.
My ThinkPad be like:
- Core i7
- 16 GB RAM
- 256 GB SSD
- Manjaro Linux
- 4th gen Intel platform
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.
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' `SSDCan 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 ??
