Hi Milan, just out of interest, I tried Fedora 42 Beta image on Raspberry Pi 4 > with 2GB RAM and it was, well, more than sluggish. Their OS based on > the Debian Bookworm was lightning fast, using the same SD card and all > the hardware for both images. >
You don't say which image you use, an image like XFCE would be more suited to a device with 2Gb of RAM than say Workstation. They also have a lot of device specific hacks and optimistions as it's a device specific OS where Fedora is a general purpose distro that only ships upstream kernels without forks or a ton of patches. > Then I thought Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM would be better, after all > 2GB is not suitable for Fedora for quite some time (a lower limit is > like not being suitable). It was even more sluggish than the 2GB > version (maybe because the arm image writer does not understand "rpi5" > argument?). I waited for multiple minutes and the only thing I saw was > slowly changing text screen full of > All arm-image-installer does is sets up firmware for devices, in the case of all RPi devices we setup all the images by default to boot on the RPis so a target of none is more that suitable for the RPi because it's a no-op. > and it was more frozen than doing anything, sometimes frozen even in > the middle of writing the line of the text. The same Debian Bookworm > derivative booted into the desktop in less than 30 seconds for sure, > even maybe less than 20 seconds, but I did not measure that precisely. > I used the same arm image writer for both Fedora and Debian, on Fedora. > The RPi5 is barely there in F-42, it will boot to a serial console login (which I've founf at least one bug since GA) with storage on mSD card, that's basically it, most of the support for the RPi isn't upstream because USB/network etc are attached to the new RP1 chip none of which is upstream yet. > The thing is, if I understand it correctly, the two systems might be > comparable in resource requirements, but the Fedora is a complete > failure from the user point of view. > > What am I doing wrong? > > There are not that many things to customize when it comes to it, the > image is written to an SD card, inserted and booted, I do not modify > there anything, still the Raspberry Pi OS works like a charm and > Fedora... not. Yes, most of the RPi4 is upstream and generally works just fine, but as you found out with a 2Gb model you need to be selective with the image you select, I would suggest something like XFCE if you want graphical or even the minimal or server image if you don't need a UX and text/ssh is enough. I am hoping the RPi5 support may look a little better for F-43, I've been looking at it more since F-42 froze and I've had a few more cycles.... time will tell. P
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