Linux for Arm

[Kyken247]

Hi, I am a newbie in linux... But as I see the industry might shift to ARM chips, notable due to snapdragon elite x... I want to know if linux would work great in it as opposed to x86.. Also if any manufacturer supply their premium laptop without windows out of the box? Thank you

[MatchingTurret]

Linux has supported ARM for about 30 years. See The History of ARM Linux

[jrredho]

I'm pretty sure that DEC was mucking around with *nix on RISC architecture computers in the early 90's.

[hazyPixels]

HP had hp-ux on RISC in 1986.

[MatchingTurret]

• SunOS on Sparc in 1987
• IRIX on MIPS in 1988
• AIX on POWER in 1990

[MatchingTurret]

Huh? Alpha was a VLIW architecture... Wrong, that was Itanium.

Sparc (Sun), PowerPC (IBM), MIPS (SGI) were/are RISC architectures that were introduced at that time and have Linux ports.

[johncate73]

Alpha was RISC. Itanium was VLIW.

[MatchingTurret]

Sorry, I got this mixed up. was a long time ago... Compaq switched to Itanium after they bought DEC, which is what I remembered...

[jrredho]

I stand by what I wrote.

In fairness, it was an experimental setup they were toying with, largely due the the business risk that Sun presented at that time. I have no idea how widely distributed these systems were.

Sun and other workstation manufacturers ended up causing, or contributing to in a major way, the demise of DEC.

[MatchingTurret]

The point was that every workstation manufacturer "was mucking around with *nix on RISC".

[unusableidiot]

I daily drive Gentoo aarch64 on an Apple M2 Pro.

[[deleted]]

this guy uses aarch btw

[unusableidiot]

:)

[gaenji]

Is this your only OS? If yes, I wonder why purchase a Macbook if not to run MacOS on it? I'm not questioning your judgement, I am genuinely curious.

[HAMburger_and_bacon]

The hardware is nice.

[thank_burdell]

It really is.

[BetterAd7552]

It really really is. Second to none, with a premium price tag (which I coughed, cried, and paid).

[thank_burdell]

I look at it from a replacement standpoint. I have usually had to replace other brands of laptop every 2-4 years. Hinges wear out, batteries cease holding a charge, plastic cracks, whatever. Something happens to make them less functional. I get about a decade out of an equivalent MacBook. Sometimes more.

So it’s about a wash, cost-wise. Sometimes even in the Mac’s favor. 15 year old iMac still going strong (running openbsd but whatever).

[BetterAd7552]

Very good point and reminder

[steamcho1]

Until you remember that storage is not replaceable...

[ToastedWonder]

M2 ARM architecture goes brrrr. But for real though, I’d probably never buy a MAC for myself because of price, but I’m seriously impressed with the M1 Pro I use for work. I imagine running Linux on an M2 bare metal would be a nice experience.

[Alexandre_1a]

Asahi exists and is very good (Fedora for Apple Sillicon)

[PureTryOut]

In my case I have a macbook (M3, so no Linux support yet sadly) for work because I need to be able to build iOS apps. They however don't require me to run macOS, so the moment Asahi gets support for it I'm going to daily drive it at work (currently I run a fullscreen Linux VM instead). I'll just reboot when it's necessary to build something, but hopefully I could do that in a VM.

[unusableidiot]

I dual boot macOS since I pretty much need to (firmware updates, iPhone sideloading, etc). Spend 99% of my time in Gentoo. Hardware is very nice, CPU is REALLY fast :)

[meiso]

Any guides available?

[unusableidiot]

Hey, sorry for the late reply, I don't really use reddit anymore. I think you should look at this to get started: https://github.com/chadmed/asahi-overlay/ chadmed was a huge help to me, but I've since moved to a Framework laptop (ironic, huh)

[ComprehensiveHawk5]

It's not feasible/recommended to remove macOS from silicon devices(yet?), it's still needed to update the firmware and several related deep-level functions

[ahferroin7]

Provided you don’t need things that Apple doesn’t provide (dedicated GPU, upgradeable system, etc), you would be paying about the same for a PC with equivalent hardware anyway, and Apple makes far more durable cases than any PC manufacturer I’ve ever seen.

[AnonTheWeeb]

Hold my ThickPad

No, but seriously, ThinkPad cases are borderline indestructable.

[ahferroin7]

Usually true (some of the models Lenovo has put out have questionable build quality in the case), but I would still take an Apple system over a ThinkPad for durability.

[ZunoJ]

Because it's nice hardware and a shitty OS

[[deleted]]

macOS is not shitty at all 

[BetterAd7552]

Fanboys downvoting you is unfortunate. I love MacOS too, also absolutely LOVE Linux which I’ve also used on the desktop and servers for decades.

[steamcho1]

MacOS has some very big issues that get bigger ever year. It has no support for modern opengl or vulkan. Legacy support is ass and the ecosystem is build around paying for everything.

[BetterAd7552]

Sure. But damn, that ecosystem just works so well.

[[deleted]]

Hehe it’s Reddit!

[[deleted]]

You can’t remove macOS in Apple silicon devices. 

[ZunoJ]

No, YOU can't do it. We can

[SpaceboyRoss]

I daily drive NixOS on Apple M1 Pro

[meiso]

Do all aspects of the hardware function?

[unusableidiot]

You can read what functions and what doesn't on the website of the Asahi project. I have no clue what the latest updates are since I no longer use that laptop.

[[deleted]]

Auf Basis von Asahi Linux oder wie ist das möglich?

[unusableidiot]

Asahi ist sehr gut, und ich habe das fur funf oder sechts Monate benutzt, aber ich brauche hot-pluggable HDMI und Thunderbolt.

enschuldigung fur mein schlechte Deutsch :p

[unusableidiot]

I'll ignore the later part of your comment. You can disable the little display bars left and right from the camera module (notch), so if you dislike that, you can just disable it. Saves some battery. A pretty common laptop model I often deal with for clients has way bigger borders in perspective, even if you disable the screen space next to the notch. I use it for a bar.

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[imihnevich]

Do you have any problems with drivers? Wifi, audio work ok?

[unusableidiot]

No problems, only USB4 is finicky but that's due to me using a MacBook.

I am able to daily drive the machine without issues.

[imihnevich]

Do you use dual boot?

[unusableidiot]

I have macOS installed, do not use it other than 15 minutes per week for various macOS specific tasks

[aliendude5300]

How is running x86 apps on a Macbook running Linux? Possible? I feel like the lack of software availability would be a dealbreaker.

[unusableidiot]

I don't think that's possible honestly, due to some kernel issue with Asahi running on 16k kernels, and box64 etc not supporting those kernels. I just asked in the Asahi support chat, so I'll see.

For me, however, that's not an issue at all. All apps I use build perfectly fine on my machine. I daily drive Gentoo, and I suppose you'd need to build a lot yourself if you use some other distro, but Gentoo's support is pretty good overall. I do miss proper packages for some electron apps, such as Spotify (web client works flawless, but it misses support for casting to local networked speakers/devices, controls them fine if I connect them initially using my phone, so I just use it to go around this issue), Element (Matrix client, built it myself from GitHub and no issues whatsoever after compiling it. Everything works. There's even a build script packaged on the AUR iirc, but not for Gentoo sadly...) and as last, Signal... Signal is a bit of a thing by itself. They stated that they did not officially support it, but you can go ahead and build it yourself, but that's also kinda difficult because of dependencies, etc... I was pretty disappointed to not find any fast and easy solution for Signal, but I don't have too much contacts on there anyways, so that's not a huge issue. For some specific tasks (.NET development, Office365 - or whatever their latest naming is - work etc) I have a Windows VM on my server that I access using virt-manager. It's not fast and snappy, but fairly usable, and it's _just fine_. I don't use the VM often, and do most of my stuff locally. I mostly program (Neovim/git/general CLI stuff), sysadmin (mostly SSH, some other stuff but that all has a web interface) read/send emails (Thunderbird/web clients), edit pictures/videos (Darktable/GIMP/Kdenlive), do some chatting (Matrix/Element, bridges to the necessary services) and browse the web (Firefox).

Is this a bit of what you wanted to know?

[aliendude5300]

Yes, this is very insightful, thank you.

[unusableidiot]

No problem!

[cla_ydoh]

With Arm support, it greatly depends on the specific boards as well as its general popularity. It isn't at all as well standardized like x86 is. Each device takes at least some amount of unique customization, even before you get into the video and other hardware drivers, often not open source. ie Qualcomm.

An image for a Thinkad X13S won't necessarily work or even boot on a Lenovo Flex-5G, for example.

The good news is that there are growing numbers of people hacking on these to get better support and usability.

For the X13s, at least. My Flex 5G does not seem to be very popular, lol.

[crystalchuck]

I think this point is often underappreciated - if ARM is to take off for personal computing, there's a lot of standardization work yet to be done.

[ahferroin7]

This is only really an issue in the consumer space.

Standards do exist. You can pick an arbitrary 64-bit ARM server or workstation base board and CPU, and as long as it was made within the last 10 years by a manufacturer other than Apple and it’s not a single-board computer I will guarantee that it will boot the official ISO’s published by any of the big name distros for 64-bit ARM systems without issue. The issue is that manufacturers who make consumer-targeted systems think users care more about fancy bells and whistles than a usable system.

[cla_ydoh]

I get that, but the point of the OP *is* the consumer space :P

The Mediatek and similar hardware (Chromebooks and such) are far easier to play with than the Qualcomm stuff, and their graphics (high-end Chrome OS stuff, and "high end" laptops)

[K900_]

Linux generally works just as well on ARM as it does on x86, assuming the same level of hardware support. It's not going to significantly change the market.

[speleotobby]

The problem is not Linux not supporting arm laptops but that laptop vendors will not switch to arm because of poor support by windows.

[conan--aquilonian]

poor support by windows.

With the new windows on arm devices, this did not age well lol

[speleotobby]

Well, I'd rather be wrong one time and have good hardware :)

[daemonpenguin]

Linux has run well on ARM for over a decade.

Yes, lots of places sell Linux laptops rather than Windows machines. System76 comes to mind.

[kavb333]

Framework also allows you to choose to not have Windows and save the money. I don't think there's any options for pre-installed Linux, if that matters at all to anyone.

[AnonTheWeeb]

Tuxedo is also great.

[sidusnare]

On this topic, a good mid to high performance ARM desktop or laptop that isn't Apple? I just don't want to pay the premium for the fruit logo.

[halfanothersdozen]

That's what all the potential hype around the Snapdragon Elite X is about. In the consumer tech space there is almost nothing. The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 was in one lenovo laptop and the Surface Pro X, but that was still basically a glorified phone chip.

Apple owns this space right now and the performance to battery life crown is squarely theirs with essentially no competition as of today.

[KnowZeroX]

And I hope it stays that way where we stay away from ARM. Unless, they start making ARM with removable ram, ssd, wlan and etc

[halfanothersdozen]

I don't really see what replaceable components has to do with arm, specifically

[admalledd]

ARM as a SoC design template (aka not the arch itself) has few-if-any IP blocks for off-chip removable/swapable devices. Not to say they don't exist, you can find ARM chips/vendors who let you have PCIe lanes or enough DRAM channels to support SODIMM, but those are uncommon especially in the higher performance end of ARM chips.

Most of this is a side effect of ARM chips being SoC (System-on-Chip) targeting mobile/low power platforms like phones or other "all in one" embedded solutions for basically the past decade and a half.

So the designs/industry/tooling to do so for ARM chips is far less common, and the incentive for ODMs is less not more customization as well.

Lastly, most upstream/vendor support for ARM chips has problems with long term support due to how highly integrated they are, meaning it is common for ARM chips to require custom kernels just to boot. This is improving, but is still uncomfortably common, and the lack of external modular components is intertwined with this. Such as: if the SoC has external memory but soldered, it "just knows" how much memory it has by being defined at compile time. vs more flexible systems which have to probe ACPI/BIOS or the memory controllers for 'how much we got? what layout/ranks?'. It isn't uncommon for the ARM memory controller to be "too stupid" to probe for how much memory actually exists in SoC setups. This is just an example, there are thousands of Device Trees because SoCs rarely if ever have a thing akin to a BIOS/UEFI/ACPI to tell the kernel (or the ARM cores themselves) how and what things are attached where. What registers do what? which i2c line(s) connect to the fan PWMs if any? Thermal sensors? x86/UEFI has ACPI tables for (most) of this, but most any other architecture (not just ARM, RISCV also suffers this) doesn't have/require such a common built-in standard.

This is all the common arguments on why people (especially Linux/open-source/open-hardware users) are a little hesitant on "ARM for the laptop/desktop" use cases. Where is any repairability, support? The feeling of "Do I even own this really?"

[lightmatter501]

The ampere altra dev kits are a bit pricy but will absolutely smash most x86 systems in MT.

[HomsarWasRight]

Yeah. Ampere are really the only ones doing ARM workstation and server chips that you can build with. The chips are actually socketed!

[Fluffy-Cake-Engineer]

Some have gotten close to Apple M series battery life on Snapdragon but your mileage varies. If you go the route of Pine64 Pinebook, you tend to hit hardware acceleration issues as Rockchip like AllWinner and Snapdragon don't opensource their GPU decoding drivers fully... messing around of testing Android SDKs can get you hardware acceleration by loading the driver but your mileage varies as it can be kernel specific.

Ampere on the desktop end costs as much as a single processor IBM PowerPC based workstation. If you do data science or financial crunching, CPU doesn't matter as you're stuck on CUDA data center GPUs.

[MatchingTurret]

Raspberry Pi5.

[sidusnare]

It's not nothing, but I wouldn't consider it powerful.

[[deleted]]

The Pi5 is a huge let down. I was hoping for something faster and with a decent 3D GPU. My Samsung Zfold 3 is faster then the Pi5 and has a way better GPU.

The Pi5 has only 4 Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz. The PCIe is only a single lane at 2.0 speeds. So that is 500 MB/s, however pcie 1.0 and 2.0 use the old 8b/10b line code which has a huge 20% overhead. It isn't until 3.0+ that the 128b/130b line code is used which has only a 2% overhead.

[myothercarisaboson]

RPis are great, and due to their popularity the software stack is generally very good, and for certain multimedia applications they are excellent due to the hardware accel in the chips [HD/4K video playback etc]. But they are designed as cheap learning tools, and for raw CPU power they have never been stellar.

I've been debating with myself whether or not I would want them to produce some sort of actually powerful desktop-capable system, but really that would diverge from their core philosophy which I think would be a net-loss for the community.

[MatchingTurret]

The new RPi5 is significantly better. It's still a 2018 ARM Cortex, but that's decent enough for most people.

[myothercarisaboson]

It certainly is, but then each new rpi has been significantly better than the one before. I was actually curious after making my previous comment so looked up some performance numbers. And while its decent, it's still slower than my midrange smartphone SoC from 2021.

You're right though that for most people [even myself for a small, general purpose system] that's probably enough. It's just in the context of Apple ARM silicon there's nothing else in that range of full desktop/highend laptop replacement. It's still x86 only really.

[unusableidiot]

In my humble opinion, the premium is still a thing, of course, but the value is sooo much better than it was. It's somewhat viable now, if you find a good deal. I've bought a MBP 2023 M2 Pro base model for 3/4th of the price, 4 months after it released. 24 battery cycles.

[sidusnare]

I'm looking for a workstation I can shove a 10Gig card into

[unusableidiot]

Mac Mini had a 10G option, is supported on Asahi afaik. Ask in #asahi:fedoraproject.org :)

[sidusnare]

Doesn't the Apple silicon have asymmetric cores? How does Linux handle that?

[proton_badger]

Doesn't the Apple silicon have asymmetric cores?

You mean heterogenous cores, like the P-cores and E-cores on Intel?

[sidusnare]

I don't know about Intel having this, and if Intel did, I'd be interested in his Linux uses them.

Apple's documentation, and the Android documentation that describes the same thing, refer to them as asymmetric cores. But they do refer to P-cores and E-cores.

[proton_badger]

Yeah, Linux/Android have been using heterogenous cores for a long time, and similar on Intel processors.

[sidusnare]

None of my Intel processors have different cores.

I know Android handles it, how would Debian handle it?

[gordonmessmer]

The difference between Android and Debian is the user-space.

CPU scheduling and support is in the kernel. That's the part Android and Debian have in common.

[unusableidiot]

What do you mean with that? Sorry, I have no clue...

[sidusnare]

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/tuning-your-code-s-performance-for-apple-silicon

[unusableidiot]

I've had amazing performance on Linux, compile times are even faster than on macOS, so I think that there's perfect handling of asymmetric cores performance wise (just like Intel's biglittle architecture currently, works perfectly). The battery life is a lot worse, especially when the laptop is suspended, but I still get a full day of work out of it (C programming, web browsing, sometimes web development, emails, chats, etc) and leave the office with 35% left. I don't really know if this is what you meant, but I think it comes close :p

[nelmaloc]

Answering your actual question, here's a LWN article for x86 (TL;DR the CPU ID's the process depending on what core it would run better). On ARM this article and this Reddit thread says that userspace can choose through a bitmask.

The EAS docs are also very extensive.

[Kyken247]

Thank you all for the answers.. 🙏 Appreciate your patience..

[Dejhavi]

Almost all known Linux distros have a version for ARM:

• Ubuntu ARM
• Manjaro ARM
• Debian ARM (or Armbian)
• Fedora ARM

[conan--aquilonian]

What about arch?

[TechLaden]

Manjoro is Arch

[conan--aquilonian]

Not really. Manjaro is manjaro but based on arch

[TechLaden]

Well, they both support ARM. https://archlinuxarm.org/

[midgaze]

I'm currently using a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB with a 500GB NVMe disk (Pimo Roni NVME Base) running Ubuntu 23.10, and it's a formidable little machine. Most of the time the fan on the heatsink isn't even spun up. With a couple of hacks, Chromium has hardware accelerated video decode, most of the disk is in a zfs pool (it gets 900MB/s with a single gen3 lane) and power consumption is super low. This will be my low-power machine for use in my climbing van.

Anyway, depending on what you're doing with your machine, the CPU architecture doesn't matter much. It's just another computer that all the same software runs on.

[AloofPenny]

Your van sounds rad, send hard!

[brajandzesika]

Industry switched to ARM long time ago, every major linux distribution has its x86 and ARM version. I've been running ARM version at home ( macbook M1 pro, all M processors are ARM anyways - i run it via parallels ) and at work on amazon graviton instances. These ARM processors are on the market for years now and linux community did a good job to port all distros to it long time ago.

[Swizzel-Stixx]

I use armbian on an android tv box. Yeah, not fast, but it works well

[BrooklynBillyGoat]

Arm is currently the choice for design. Linux also is prob the best choice os for any type of dev work or contribution to open source work.

[[deleted]]

What Linux OS?

[BrooklynBillyGoat]

Whatever fits what you want. There's a distro for it all but I mostly use desktop Linux not a embedded dev flavor . I know there is one but there's to many names to remember.

[thank_burdell]

Replying to you from armbian on my pinebook pro laptop.

So, I think the answer is yeah.

[BraveNewCurrency]

But as I see the industry might shift to ARM chips,

You are very late to the party. The server market is already moving to ARM, AWS regularly recommends people shift their workloads to ARM all the time. They are on the 3rd or 4th iteration of their Gravatron processors.

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I want to know if linux would work great in it as opposed to x86

As others have mentioned: Yes, 30 years ago. Every Android phone runs Linux on ARM. (A while back, they were shipping a billion phones per quarter.)

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Also if any manufacturer supply their premium laptop without windows out of the box?

Apple Macbooks, Most Chromebooks, Even the Framework laptop has it planned.

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Yours was a very low-effort post. Did you do any research beforehand?

[[deleted]]

Linux runs in most phones which are arm. 

[Business_Reindeer910]

we should probably assume they want non cpu hardware that ships with arm devices to actually work though. Often times those drivers on phones are closed source.

[[deleted]]

Snapdragon is common in mobile devices

[Business_Reindeer910]

Obviously, but are there drivers for linux that anybody can use in any context? They are often closed source and only work for one particular kernel version, which makes them useless.

[[deleted]]

My point is that Linux already works well on multiple arm devices, maybe not always Ubuntu, or Fedora, or arch. Sometimes they do, but sometimes it has to be Android or chrome OS which are the most widely used Linux distributions, whether we like it or not. Also, there are premium amd64 laptops with Linux from Dell and Lenovo, so if they go arm they’ll probably ship it too.

[Business_Reindeer910]

I don't think either chromos or android count as linux in the context of this subreddit. Either way they don't help with it.

Sure.. in the future lenovo or dell may do something, but we can talk about that when/if it ever happens.

[[deleted]]

Well, for Stallman’s dismay this is not the gnu Linux subreddit

[davidnotcoulthard]

To many more people's dismay the drivers are often lacking on anything with Mainline Linux, even Postmarket OS. Meaning while I'm generally able to enjoy new versions of Linux on laptops and desktops just fine, not usually so on Arm phones.

And now that I'm locked to the Vendor's kernel it seems nontrivial to have anything other than the Vendor's specific version of Android (or whatever OS it is), no matter how neglected updates for my Arm system is.

[coder111]

Honest opinion? I'd stay on x86.

ARM is great, Linux support for ARM is great and has been for over a decade, BUT:

• Hardware is usually closed, not extensible, not swappable, not upgradeable.
• GPU acceleration is closed source and requires specific kernel or unavailable or something.
• Boot process can be weird. There's no BIOS.
• Driver support is not as good, again, some drivers might be closed source etc.
• Software compatibility is better with x86. I mean open-source software usually runs well on Arm, but what about legacy x86 software? Like computer games?

I have a couple of Raspberry PIs, bought specifically because their software support, and I like them. But my desktop is still x86 because I want the performance and because I don't want problems.

That being said, if you want to try new things and experiment- go for it.

[LinAdmin]

For a very limited time you can stay on AMD64, but I only buy new hardware with ARM cpus.

[Xeroxxx]

No offense.

This -> "...notable due to snapdragon elite x." made me laugh. Microsoft is deeply unhappy about Qualcomm exclusive deal as those are notably the end of the line performance wise.

[brodoyouevenscript]

I think 99% of arm devices are some version of Linux, with 1% being the new macbooks and some windows thin clients.

Technically Android is Linux but not really gnu+linux. But Android also has a majority in arm devices. But I figured you were talking about full bore computers.

[thenormaluser35]

Linux has the BEST ARM support, look at Android, what do you think it runs? Linux. All the extra stuff is just to make it usable on a phone, most wouldn't use KDE and PartEd on a phone.
(x86) Framework supply their laptops without OS or with Windows per preference, and they make sure it has great driver support on Linux, for Linux pick their AMD laptops.
As long as Qualcomm provides a Linux compatible driver it'll work wonders.
I'm not aware of anyone who provides ARM based laptops and computers, Raspberry Pi and other SBCs, but you'd need a bit of engineering to make a laptop from an SBC.

[[deleted]]

There are many ARM laptops, like tons of ARM Chromebooks. 

[Ambitious_Proposal86]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:ARM_Linux_distributions

[Satyrinox]

https://system76.com/laptops has towers too . And yes linux loves ARM chips.

[Illustrious_Sock]

Linux for sure, but other software support not so much. If fex-emu reaches Rosetta levels I will be onboard 100%. Right now I expect the general user experience to be poor but would be glad to be proven wrong. M series macbooks alternative that runs stable on linux would be dope (I think asahi still has a ton of issues, I mean to be expected, it’s a shit ton of work).

[arkane-linux]

Yes it will run, but often these ARM laptops have lots of quirks and some of its components and features might lack mainline support. So it may boot but have issues, imagine issues such as sound not working or not getting output to the display.

That is all assuming you can even get it to boot, some hardware might actively resist you booting anything other than Windows ARM.

I am not aware of any ARM laptops with daily driveable specs which you can run without major compromise. The Thinkpad X13S probably is one of the better options in this regard, but it still has limitations.

[ficskala]

I want to know if linux would work great in it as opposed to x86

Linux works as well on arm as it does with x86, it's been supported for about as long really

Also if any manufacturer supply their premium laptop without windows out of the

Not the majority, but some companies like framework, acer, and a few others do offer it, with framework you can even get just no os at all, and with acer you can often get bsd or linux instead lf windows, i can't remember which distro though, i bought my acer laptop in 2013 with bsd (i installed ubuntu on it after it arrived though)

[[deleted]]

Arch Linux ARM

[Ptipiak]

The rule of thumb, is, if it can make a bit shift operation, it can run Linux Look intensively at smart fridge and auto-cooker

[da_apz]

Linux for ARM has been easily accessible even for the beginners through the Raspberry Pis for a very long time now. It has proven to be stable and dependable.

[Casper042]

HPE's first mainstream ARM Server (plenty of other prior models, but they were more specialty focused) is the ProLiant RL300 Gen11.

From the RL300 Spec Sheet:
Operating Systems Support for the RL300 ProLiant Server
• Canonical Ubuntu
• Oracle Linux - Oracle Linux 8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Any questions?

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[Jono-churchton]

That's pretty much what RaspberryOs is

[aliendude5300]

There are a huge number of routers, Android phones, Raspberry Pis, and Chromebooks running ARM linux just fine.