Hello John,
I'd prefer the Pi Foundation's dedicated Raspbian on their Pi devices over
Ubuntu, because in contrast to Ubuntu, Raspbian is tailored for the Pi
architecture and hence runs smoother on the Pi, and out of the box, i.e. with
all the right hardware drivers and other tools (like raspi-config) in-place -
most of them developed by the Pi Foundation.
On x86 desktop machines I use Ubuntu (with Xfce), but Raspbian (with Xfce) on
the Pi. (I used to use Ubuntu on the Pi (with Xfce) for a few years, and it
was nice, but Raspbian is much more solid in my experience.)
Since both Ubuntu and Raspbian are Debian based, for us normal users the
important things, including the apt-get eco-system, do work the same way.
Including the installation of the XFCE desktop packages via apt-get install.
Also the newest Openjdk 11.0.6 runs very well on the Raspbian Pi (not sure
anymore if it was pre-installed, but a "sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk" does
the job in any case), so everything should be ready for your Netbeans on Pi
experiment.
Good luck! Greetings,
Hans
Am 26.02.20 um 20:15 schrieb John G. Weed:
Many, many thanks to all for the inputs thus far. Sincerely appreciated.
My end-game, to put all cards on the table for a sanity check, is to be
able to run the Netbeans 11.2 IDE with C/C++ plugin, on the Raspberry Pi 4B
4GB, running the 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS operating system and the
xubuntu-desktop. Does anyone see any issues beyond the SUBJ Netbeans ARM64
compatibility concern I initially started with?
