Raspberry pi 4 and Linux Mint? (solved)

[farkas]

I'd like to know more about it from personal experience of any one. Has any one tried using LM on any version of raspberry pi?
What were your impressions and experiences with it?
Or from who ever would like to chime in. All opinions are welcome!

Read this recently about raspberry pi 4.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/27/the-r ... am-for-35/
Raspberry Pi 4 Tech Specs
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/ra ... fications/

I'm thinking of using it as backup box in case of a hardware crash or some other unforeseen event, just to get on line for recovery options.
Actually, I'll be honest, it will be a toy play around with. Plugging in an USB 3.0 250GB SSD for storage.

Googled about linux compatibility and it appears that it will run a linux OS. LM 19.x and LMDE 4 specs are compatible with the hardware specs.
My concern is, will LM run on the Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC processor?

Depending on what one considers reasonable. I can get an ALMOST complete replacement for a desktop. Just for a little over $100 USD.
https://www.newegg.com/p/1HD-005N-00088 ... -_-Product

Thanks!

[xenopeek]

LM 19.x and LMDE 4 specs are compatible with the hardware specs.
My concern is, will LM run on the Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC processor?

Indeed it won't run Linux Mint as it doesn't have a x86 or x86-64 processor but an ARM processor. Linux Mint doesn't have an ARM edition.

You can likely get all of Linux Mint's software working on the Raspberry Pi 4 but will mean compiling them from source.

[farkas]

Thank you for your reply xenopeek!

Indeed it won't run Linux Mint as it doesn't have a x86 or x86-64 processor but an ARM processor. Linux Mint doesn't have an ARM edition.

You can likely get all of Linux Mint's software working on the Raspberry Pi 4 but will mean compiling them from source.

I don't have the know-how of how to compile anything from source.
I'll put this project in the back of the back burner. Maybe, if and when, LM has a ARM edition, I'll consider it again.

Once again thanks for your reply!

[murray]

Most people with Raspberry Pi's use Raspbian as their OS (a Debian-based Linux), but there are many others you can use. Raspbian is especially designed to be light-weight so it runs well on Pi's.

This article outlines some of the better options.

[1337ingDisorder]

Might be worth adding that you can run both MATE and Cinnamon on top of Raspbian, so you can have a user experience that's almost exactly the same as with Mint.

Raspbian and Linux Mint are both derivatives of Debian, so they work very similarly. A lot of the software available on Linux Mint is also available in Raspbian.

MATE and Cinnamon are the two desktop environments you can choose from when installing Linux Mint.

So if you want to run Mint on an rPi you might find the experience you're looking for by installing Raspbian on an rPi and then switching from the default desktop environment to MATE (or Cinnamon if you prefer that).