On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:59:08AM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:33:26AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > If you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 - it woill work as a small desktop, > > more or less silently. To fit extra disks you'll need an add on case > > - something like the Argon which will take NVME. There are > > bottlenecks. It's still essentially a phone SOC. It's not *free* > > because blobs and if you want peripherals, you more or less are tied > > to running Raspberry Pi OS. > > What ties me into Raspberry Pi OS for peripherals? Non-free drivers > and/or firmware that cannot get into Debian, or just "it is not > packaged for Debian because nobody did the work but could be"? >
The Raspberry Pi packaged kernel and dtb and the Pi "hat" ecosystem. The peripheral drivers thing is particularly annoying because the dtb's are not that much - I have a GPS hat for which there is no obvious driver except in Raspberry Pi forked kernel, for example. Andy Cater
