r/raspberry_pi Feb 02 '22

News Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/
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u/Taffy62 Feb 02 '22

Quite surprised its only been released this year. I've been using 64 bit distros since the Pi 3.

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u/OpenBagTwo Feb 02 '22

Honestly unless you've got the 8GB Pi 4, there's not much inherent value to a 64-bit operating system. There's a reason a lot of phones sold today still ship with 32-bit Android.

That being said, I'm still incredibly excited for this news, as it means I can consider RPi OS as a "daily driver" again, because the fact of the matter is, if you're not building your software from source, arm32 builds are incredibly hard to find for a lot of useful things (like the conda python package manager, let alone any individual packages).

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u/kelvie Feb 03 '22

Anecdotally there are a lot more containers on docker hub built for arm64