Yeah I've seen more and more people switching to Ubuntu's 64 bit build just because there are a lot more arm64-compatible things floating around now than armv7. I'll be happy to not have to spend so much time compiling things for the 32-bit OS!
Yep -- I just bought a Raspberry Pi 4 this past weekend and was surprised to learn that .NET Core wasn't supported until I realized Raspbian was 32-bit. I installed Ubuntu/arm64 and while I didn't realize it was a non-GUI OS that was fine and I was able to put .NET Core 3.1 and some small apps on it and all is well.
Uh - I've been using Raspbian + .NET Core for ages. Works fine.
pi@pi:~ $ uname -m
armv7l
Perhaps this is too much of a tangent, but why do people feel the need to type out "Uh" or "Um" in internet discussions? Are they trying to mimic the way they speak offline, because if so, it doesn't come across particularly well.
It frames the intent of what they are about to "say". Before reading the technical details I already know that the author has a contrasting experience.
Nice I might have to check Ubuntu out for the Pi. I was also debating going the openSUSE route.
are there any disadvantages to using debian aarch64 vs raspbian?
I would prefer to be on the base distro for several reasons (though mainly prompt security updates)
The big disadvantage to me is firmware updating. You have to have a second SD card that boots rasbian just to perform the update.
IIRC the firmware is in a separate repository from the rest of raspbian. You can simply add it to your debian sources.list.