My ARM fleet

[AMDave]

I like how the Experimental Department seem so demanding. Good on them.
They might like to consider running newer kernels than come with RaPi Debian
Maybe a RaPi Arch could show an edge.
I like Manjaro these days as it back-grounds the Arch install steps and still leaves me with the Arch functionality.
Some Manjaro ARM installs are a bit slow to boot, but there was some slowness with recent kernels so not all Manjaro's blame.
Linux kernel 5.18 has numerous fixes and boots like a champ.
But for a bare-bones install I'd go raw Arch with judicious low-level compile options and leverage every ounce of chip feature that you can.
It's just fast. And then you make it faster. With nothing else there unless you put it there.
Just some thoughts for the Experimental Department

[Dirk Broer]

Arch holds an advantage over Manjaro for my ARMada, as ArchLinux|ARM still supports 32-bit boards as the BeagleBone Black, the Odroid-C1, the i.MX6 Cubox/Hummingboard and the Raspberry Pi 2.
Manjaro seems to have gone 64-bit only.

For the Raspberry Pi's there is yet another option to run Arch: RaspArch

32-bit RaspArch Build 220216 comes with kernel 5.15.21-3-rpi-ARCH. After the Commands:

pacman -Sy

followed by

pacman -Syu

that kernel should be replaced with 5.18, hopefully.

Note: My Raspberry CM4 Compute Module -that has been imaged as last- runs 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS with kernel 5.15.32. Running a 64-bit OS halves the computing time as compared to a 32-bit OS when running WEP-M+2 (wanless2) - tested this via my Raspberry Pi 3's.

[Dirk Broer]

I like how the Experimental Department seem so demanding. Good on them.
They might like to consider running newer kernels than come with RaPi Debian
Maybe a RaPi Arch could show an edge.
I like Manjaro these days as it back-grounds the Arch install steps and still leaves me with the Arch functionality.
Some Manjaro ARM installs are a bit slow to boot, but there was some slowness with recent kernels so not all Manjaro's blame.
Linux kernel 5.18 has numerous fixes and boots like a champ.
But for a bare-bones install I'd go raw Arch with judicious low-level compile options and leverage every ounce of chip feature that you can.
It's just fast. And then you make it faster. With nothing else there unless you put it there.
Just some thoughts for the Experimental Department

The experimental department is steadily warming to Manjaro, the test PC is by now on real-time kernel 6.0.15

[Dirk Broer]

As WEP-M+2 ran out of WUs, I decided to change to Asteroids for a while, otherwise Sebastian from WuProp gets nasty for me running just WuProp and he is already subtracting enough minutes from my efforts without me knowing why.
My Pi 4's choked on Asteroids though, and for a while I lost three Pi 4's and a Rock Pi 4. One of the Pi 4's (the 8GB) is running again -seems the added RAM padded the fall a bit.
The other three are out longer, though one of the 4GB Pi 4's I have now almost back -but by now running from SSD. The other Pi 4 needs a complete reinstall, as does the Rock Pi 4....