Good reminder that the Raspberry Pis only have good software support if you stick to whatever the foundation is releasing. Because that same foundation has stayed obsessed with their weird custom ways of doing things, instead of furthering efforts like UEFI on ARM. Some of it is insultingly stupid - like for revD of the 5, you better now update the magic boot partition of your RPi with the device tree overlay for revD, because it will use the old device tree, but also expect the overlay to be there so it can actually work. To say the least, that is never what overlays were supposed to be for.
I replaced my custom nightmare of nixos on rpi5 (too much disk space used, too much IO used for raspberry) to a raspbian+arm+homebrew and i could not be happier
Oh no, i was going to setup the same, would you mind sharing more details? I just need a text-only linux for basic stuff. Do you share your nixos config anywhere?
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