Raspberry Pi: New 'glorious' 64-bit operating system is available to install

zdnet.com

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“Hollingworth notes that the 64-bit version of Chromium has no version of the WidevineCDM library, meaning it can't play streaming media such as Netflix or Disney+.“

^^ You could still use the 32-bit binary/version of Chromium in the 64-bit ARM Linux OS right (eg like you can for x86/x86_64 systems?) ? I’m not too familiar with ARM arch so not sure..

Yes. This article is just a rehash of the official blog post.[0] They even copied the “Netflix or Disney+” choices exactly. From the source, the literal next sentence (a code block follows this) is:

> The 64-bit version of Chromium, installed by default, has no version of the WidevineCDM library and therefore, it is not possible to play streaming media such as Netflix or Disney+. To instead choose the 32-bit version just do the following within a terminal window:

[0]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/

Hah, that’s funny. Excellent, thank you.

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