Why do progammers not use the Raspberry Pi 4 running Fedora as their daily driver?

Last Updated on April 22, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

1. Fedora on the Raspberry 4 has some issues with we reported:

2. but Fedora on the Rasperry Pi offers 45 min Flock talk from the year 2018:

3. Fedora 25 runs also on older Raspberry models than the Raspberry Pi w such as

  • the Model B version 2 and the 3-series of devices (3B, 3B+, 3A+, CM3, CM3+)
  • Initial support for the new Zero 2W is under review

4: and that it runs on older models is also shown in this video which was released 7 years ago shows:

5. the Raspberry Pi 4 is officially supported from Fedora release 37 onwards:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/

6. And we have there the changes on Fedora for the Raspberry Pi4:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RaspberryPi4

7. the Raspberry Pi Touch Display is supported by Fedora

  • Work on the official Raspberry Pi Touch Display is ongoing upstream and initial support is provided in the 4.10 kernel, see:

https://github.com/anholt/linux/issues/8

  • LCD touchscreen not supported by Fedora, altough the above link says that the issue with it has been resloved
  • Fedora will review any missing pieces for support soon.
  • The touchscreen driver isn’t yet released upstream.
  • Support for other displays is not currently planned.

8. will the Raspberry Pi 5 be a breakthrough for Fedora on the Raspberry Pi?

Developers welcome to continue the promising project of Fedora and Raspberry Pi.