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Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?



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"?


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