Raspberry Pi - Arch Linux or Raspberry Pi OS (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently changing my setup a bit and I'm thinking about firing up my Raspberry Pi 4 again as a home server kind thing. I typically use Arch (BTW) as my go-to linux distro but IIRC arch on the Pi gave me some trouble last time I tried it. Does anyone know how stable arch on Pi is right now? Also, is there a particular reason I should or shouldn't use the native Raspberry Pi OS?

I know I didn't write about uses really but that's because I haven't figured out what I want to do with it yet... I've recently moved my main server (mainly media) to my folks' house since they got fiber (gotta go fast), but I think it makes sense having some lower profile server running in my own home so I can connect to it remotely.

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[-] ducking_donuts@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I’m running Arch on my RPI 4b+ and quite happy with it.

The installation was pretty simple IIRC - I did run into some issue with uboot which was easily solved by searching for the error on the internet.

Arch Linux ARM ships with a mainline aarch64 kernel and uboot by default, but if you are interested in running the RPI kernel and their boot loader, there’s a custom pacman repo and instruction on the forums: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16144

All in all I don’t think arch needs that much maintenance on a non-critical home server - just make sure to check for config updates every now and then and reboot after kernel upgrades.

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