Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration

On 06/06/2024 20:03, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

Yes sorry its bullseye to BOOKWORM
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 In light of private comments on bookworm's new "features" it
appears that I should set up a bookworm install and play with it
some. The existing Pi4 works very well under Bullseye, but it'll
get superceded at some point and I'll have to face Bookworm
eventually. In principle I like the idea of upgrading from X11,
though the actual experience may not be fun.....

There is nothing wrong with Bookworm, you can set it up to work in an identical way to Bullseye and it's predecessors. The problem is the default set up of clean install of Raspberry PI OS's Bookworm is very different to what has has before, and takes quiet a bit of know how to change it back. I found it easier to go against advice and upgrade from a working Bullseye, rather than workout that out.

One thing I hadn't considered until now is migrating away from
RasPiOS to something else. Are there any alternatives that offer
comparable support that will run on the Pi5? The biggest issue
for me is probably browser support, most other things I do are
in terminal windows running shells on FreeBSD hosts (also RPi,
but headless). I'm a less-bad admin with FreeBSD, but it does
not yet make use of the GPU on any Pi that I know of. AFAIK
FreeBSD can't yet boot on a Pi5.

Other OS's aimed at the Pi are getting better, but Raspberry Pi OS still has the most optimisation on the Pi4 and earlier. It would be very interesting to see where things stand on the much faster Pi 5, where such optimisations may not be so important.
---druck