I’m currently changing my setup a bit and I’m thinking about firing up my Raspberry Pi 4 again as a home server kind thing. I typically use Arch (BTW) as my go-to linux distro but IIRC arch on the Pi gave me some trouble last time I tried it.
Does anyone know how stable arch on Pi is right now?
Also, is there a particular reason I should or shouldn’t use the native Raspberry Pi OS?
I know I didn’t write about uses really but that’s because I haven’t figured out what I want to do with it yet… I’ve recently moved my main server (mainly media) to my folks’ house since they got fiber (gotta go fast), but I think it makes sense having some lower profile server running in my own home so I can connect to it remotely.
My spouse and I both use Arch (we use Arch BTW) on our desktop PC’s. We also have a Pi, an ODroid and now a Dell Optiplex running as a game server. Our media server has DietPi which is an option I would recommend.
My spouse just tried Arch on the Dell and found it would have done great as a server but more work required to get stuff set up, especially with ensuring dependencies are installed. So he scrapped that idea and went with tried and true DietPi.
We’ve messed about with a few different flavours of server distros over the years and it’s always come down to what we need the server to do, feature set and ease of use and configuration.
It’s been a while since we last used RaspiOS but every time we’ve given it a go, it’s never lasted long because it’s always given us problems and just hasn’t suited our needs as well as DietPi has.
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My spouse and I both use Arch (we use Arch BTW) on our desktop PC’s. We also have a Pi, an ODroid and now a Dell Optiplex running as a game server. Our media server has DietPi which is an option I would recommend.
My spouse just tried Arch on the Dell and found it would have done great as a server but more work required to get stuff set up, especially with ensuring dependencies are installed. So he scrapped that idea and went with tried and true DietPi.
We’ve messed about with a few different flavours of server distros over the years and it’s always come down to what we need the server to do, feature set and ease of use and configuration.
It’s been a while since we last used RaspiOS but every time we’ve given it a go, it’s never lasted long because it’s always given us problems and just hasn’t suited our needs as well as DietPi has.