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Just Fedora or any aarch64 distro? I thought aarch64 meant raspberries.

well generally i recommend Fedora as being rock solid and also includes cutting edge (but not bleeding edge) linux infra.

but i suppose any aarch64 distro

Thank you for recommending Fedora. However, I'm on Void for the past 7 years now (whew time flies!). I'm not planning on switching to any distro that has systemd.

I suppose I could still use the live environment as a Linux bootstrap for installing my favorite distro, though.

i would recommend that you be very careful here. You want a distro that explicitly has ARM as one of its official targets. Because there are a lot of moving components here - bootloader, system init, etc that all need to be targeted to the new arch.

If you are not on the Triple Trouble (Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu)... I would recommend you wait until your distro catches up.

Fedora is guaranteed rock stable here. Amazon Linux was originally based on RHEL and still have a lot of cross-upstreaming going on. For e.g. RHEL has support built in for 100 GBPS networking on Arm (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5691381).

aarch64 means 64-bit ARM, which apply to anything from server-grade hardware to smartphones to raspberry pi's.

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