I was running a 64 bit Buster in 2018 from somebody's debootstrap script. Fairly stable for a year or so until I got rid of it. It was what I'd call "smooth", but 64 bit isn't faster than 32 for the most part. Everything's twice as big and a Pi 3B can only have 1 GB of RAM by the design of the SOC so you go into swap more easily, which crawls. There's some current version that (I read somewhere) has the OS at 64 bits but the userland is 32 bit. They did it I think because a couple of programs (You Tube is one) they only had a 32-bit blob for so all the userland stuff is 32 bit.
I finally switched back to Raspbian because I missed the Pi-specific stuff like vc4 and camera support, still using it. So I have 3 superior machines but I spend most of my time on a Pi 3B, just upgraded to Buster a couple months ago. I set them to boot to a command line on purpose, then I type startx. You can set that easily with raspi-config. Once in a while I play with Wayland instead of x. On 3/1/20, Pete Batard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020.03.01 08:23, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> On 1/3/20 6:22 pm, deloptes wrote: >>> Keith Bainbridge wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a preferred debian arm that people here use basically trouble >>>> free? >>>> >>>> This is for Pi3B >>> >>> many suggest 32bit for the Pi3 incl. raspbian. > > Debian 10.3 ARM64 should install and work just fine on the Pi 3, > including full graphical mode. No need for 32-bit. > > Please see either: > https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry-pi.html > or > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=249449&sid=84febcd504e6159355215ff8b8fa6d67 > > Regards, > > /Pete > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Cities are cages built to contain excess people and keep them from cluttering up nature. Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
