ARM Tips
Posted by op374t0r@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 3 comments
(mods please remove if this is wroong place for this discussion) hey so im running an rpi-4b 4gb model and tried out rasberry-pi os full and while i was surprised how light weight it was it still felt quite sluggish and bloated i know the ow ram wont be helping but wondered if anyone on here dailies arm at all and has any tips or advice or recs for lean computing, happy with jut running a WM instead of a full desktop, all glory to the lean machine
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Yes, I do. Well, I did. At one time I was running DEs on rpi4b, odroid n2+, and my orange pi 5 max. 4b is a little tough to run a modern stack on, but I still found plasma to be the best DE. I run plasma on everything from my big workstation to my smallest pi. It really is thin and light, and back in the xorg days I just turned off the compositor to make it go faster.
My best advice is this: chromium for a browser in a flatpak. Plasma as the DE. ZSwap with some physical swap, even on sdcard. On my odroid and orange 5 max, I have m2 ssds and boot with a custom boot loader on the odroid, where as the rom on the orange pi will just syslinux right off of the first fat partition so you literally just make a menu file that points to kernel and initrd and you can boot anything.
I much prefer arch linux arm, which is a separate project, and a bit lagging on updates at time (i.e. that's why you run chromium via flatpak, unless you're like me and you compile it like a masochist).
The reality is that nothing works quite as well as the RPI kernels on their broadcom boards, and alarm (arch linux arm) is really more designed for mainline kernel use. Manjaro, which gets a ton of well deserved hate, was an amazing arm distro, with full board support for most of the boards. I found that I could run arch linux arm (alarm) on my rpi 4b but I had issues with wireless channels that were immediately solved by raspi os. Unfortunately this is pretty common.
Ask me anything you want, but my honest advice is to get a faster board to do desktopish stuff, the 4b is good for lots of things, but as a desktop, it is quite dated by today's board standards.
Razathorn@reddit
https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md
I should have got an orange pi 5b+ instead of the max 5. The max 5 is more powerful and has ddr5 but the BT/wifi chip is a nogo and nobody is working on fixing it in mainline from what I can tell, but the 5b is still an RK3588 and a great board. I'm a huge fan of RK stuff because they actually work on mainlining stuff.