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Creating a discussion here about elementary's support for Raspberry Pi so that there is a consolidated place to track its progress and discuss usages of it.
Personally, I'm a reluctant Apple user, and have been funding elementary OS on GitHub Sponsors for a while now, as it is what I see as the best competition. Having watched the EDW conference on YouTube, I'm also excited about the platform for experimentation in building native apps, as the toolkit seems to offer many of the advantages of Apple's platform.
However, the potential that I see for elementary OS on Raspberry Pi 4, is suddenly all the seniors which I provide tech support for, and those seniors which are then providing tech support for others, will have a user friendly and secure option that isn't a $1500AUD+ Apple machine, $2500AUD+ if you consider senior's opt for larger display sizes. These Apple options are unaffordable to so many, especially pensioners, despite what Apple's advertisement propaganda insinuates which is that you are either upper class or non-existent. Most of these seniors are struggling with all sorts of incompatibilities and running hardware and software that is 10+ years old, exposing them to unpatched security issues and poor UX that amplifies things going very wrong.
Once elementary OS support lands for the Raspberry Pi 4/400, then I will start getting a few and swapping out all the outdated and no longer secure setups of all the seniors that are struggling with their current setups.
The counter-argument to such a transition from Apple to elementary OS, would be, "but they would be better served by all the fandangled new features that Apple provides", perhaps, however aside from the FLOSS politics, Apple never delivers a feature that works 100% of the time, and unless you replace every device every 3 years (and forcibly every 5 years), then with each passing year you encounter more "just upgrade" issues, which seniors are happy living without and pocketing the money — not everyone needs progress for the sake of progress, for many "good enough (usable and secure) is good enough".
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Creating a discussion here about elementary's support for Raspberry Pi so that there is a consolidated place to track its progress and discuss usages of it.
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Personally, I'm a reluctant Apple user, and have been funding elementary OS on GitHub Sponsors for a while now, as it is what I see as the best competition. Having watched the EDW conference on YouTube, I'm also excited about the platform for experimentation in building native apps, as the toolkit seems to offer many of the advantages of Apple's platform.
However, the potential that I see for elementary OS on Raspberry Pi 4, is suddenly all the seniors which I provide tech support for, and those seniors which are then providing tech support for others, will have a user friendly and secure option that isn't a $1500AUD+ Apple machine, $2500AUD+ if you consider senior's opt for larger display sizes. These Apple options are unaffordable to so many, especially pensioners, despite what Apple's advertisement propaganda insinuates which is that you are either upper class or non-existent. Most of these seniors are struggling with all sorts of incompatibilities and running hardware and software that is 10+ years old, exposing them to unpatched security issues and poor UX that amplifies things going very wrong.
Once elementary OS support lands for the Raspberry Pi 4/400, then I will start getting a few and swapping out all the outdated and no longer secure setups of all the seniors that are struggling with their current setups.
The counter-argument to such a transition from Apple to elementary OS, would be, "but they would be better served by all the fandangled new features that Apple provides", perhaps, however aside from the FLOSS politics, Apple never delivers a feature that works 100% of the time, and unless you replace every device every 3 years (and forcibly every 5 years), then with each passing year you encounter more "just upgrade" issues, which seniors are happy living without and pocketing the money — not everyone needs progress for the sake of progress, for many "good enough (usable and secure) is good enough".
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