I’ve seen people talking about it and experienced it myself with a server, but why does Linux run so well on ARM (especially compared to Windows)?

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Raspberry pi works fine with linux, cutiePi also. my iomega nas is an arm board running debian…i don’t see the issue

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          31·
          1 year ago

          The issue with Arm is they aren’t all one board/chip, you have ARM based design licenced from them and they are built to meet the criteria of what the customer requires. i.e. for my iomega NAS there isn’t firmware boot, you just have to generate an empty section of 00s on the first 32bytes of the drive so the board knows that is the drive to load the kernel from (no grub no uboot) and the board is set to do the rest from the next partition.

      • pewpew@feddit.it
        2·
        1 year ago

        Theese devices support linux out of the box. Try installing a proper linux distro on your phone and good luck finding a graphics driver that is not sotware rendering

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          As did microsofts arm device support windows, which is the point zi was replying to with skullgiver. of course windows works if the arm version was built for the hardware it runs on.