Re: rPI Goes Public

On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:02:18 -0400, 26xh.0712 wrote:

   So, for now, I'm into Arch derivatives. Manjaro is now very good but
   there are a couple others I'd consider. My one gripe with Manjaro is
   the update model ... which quickly gets to basically reloading the
   entire 2+gb system, rather like Tumbleweed, and that takes time and
   bites into the monthly data allotment.

I avoided the Red Hat family after the gcc 2.96 fiaso in the early '2000s
but recently gave Fedora a shot on one of my backup machines. I knew what
i was getting into but the KDE spin 40 has a huge number of updates.
They've even managed to copy the Windows 'Don't turn you machine off'
message.

   Clearly boards like BeeLink and BMax fit into a different niche from
   Pi's - for some apps you WANT all those I/O pins and there's no
   substitute. However I had been using Pi's for apps that did not need
   those pins. Pi5/WORM has forced me to a fork in the road, Pi doesn't
   do it all anymore.

I've got a few Pico Ws and may go the route of using one Pico as the
loader/debugger for the target Pico to get around the pin problem with a
conventional Linux box. They're cheap enough.