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I mean Raspberry Pi's are ARM and there are more than a few of these are running Linux(Raspian/Arch/etc/).

Linux will run on pretty much anything given an ounce of driver support. I'm not that overly worried about Linux and ARM.

Microsoft is the one that should be worried!

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Yes, but each distribution has to make a custom image for each Pi. One of my favorite distros, Void Linux, only has support for the Pi 1, 2 and 3:

https://voidlinux.org/download/ (click on arm platforms)

The Pi3 image does not work on the Pi 4. There are mentions on the bug tracker and how to patch in support, but this wouldn't happen at all on a UEFI+x86 system. You'd always be able to boot to a prompt on over 90% of motherboards.

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