On 2021-09-04, LinAdmin wrote: > The unnamed decision makers of Debian some unknown time ago > decided that Pi and Pine stuff won't be supported by Debian. I personally have added support in Debian for: Raspberry Pi 1 Raspberry Pi 2b Raspberry Pi 3b+ Pine64+ Pinebook Pinebook Pro RockPro64 Rock64 And other platforms... others have added support for other Raspberry PI and Pine64 platforms, as well as numerous other platforms... I used the Pinebook as my primary computer for over a year, using absolutely zero software from outside of Debian... Debian isn't a consumer product, it is a community project. It is largely a volunteer effort, suppored by the community, so... if you want something supported, please help to add the support. It pretty much comes down to submitting patches, bug reports, merge requests, etc. to enabled the appropriate kernel options, bootloader support, and debian-installer support. Debian doesn't generally support patches that wouldn't be acceptible in upstream projects, or support non-free binary blobs out of the box, so maybe the support isn't as good on a per-platform basis as some other targeted distros willing to use vendor forks or patches for various components. The support isn't always perfect; maybe all features don't always work; I don't and can't personally test all combinations of features on all platforms, nor have the time to enable all features on all combinations of platforms. Thankfully, there are others in the community who test and improve what they can. Debian could always use more people helping with testing and perhaps more importantly, upstreaming of support to make sure it works for their use-cases... I know not everybody can dive in and fix all kinds of issues, but there is a pretty broad spectrum of ways to help out... sometimes things are even supported but undocumented. Documenting workarounds and filing bug reports appropriately is one angle that could potentially help. > I switched to Ubuntu LTS which made me (and many others) happy. Curious what exactly is different with Ubuntu that makes it work for you... live well, vagrant
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