• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      11 hours ago

      SteamOS on the Frame may soon alleviate some of those woes, given it’s based on Arch and has an ARM processor iirc. Can’t hurt, anyhow.

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      15 hours ago

      Usually those are from python rebuilds which clog the other packages for weeks at a time. Maybe they could use your build server.

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        1 hour ago

        Python rebuilds don’t cause (noticeable) problems for AMD64 Arch Linux.

        And any time anyone offers any kind of help on the Arch Linux Arm forums to try to help resolve the issue, the admins ignore and/or lock the thread. They’re not open to help and the people on the forums are super frustrated about it.

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      1 day ago

      I have had great success running NixOS on my Pi. You can build software on your main computer and remote deploy with SSH :)