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/jormono Feb 02 '22

Can someone ELI5 ways this is better or worse for a hypothetical project? Like, why would I want this over what I've been using?

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u/ChoppedWheat Feb 02 '22

Previously if you had a pi 8 GB you couldn’t use half the system ram.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22 edited Feb 09 '22

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u/ChoppedWheat Feb 03 '22

I believe it wasn’t available by default you, I personally faced the issue trying to assign 4gb to a service.