I wonder if the person making the original post is trying to figure out what to do with a laptop that won't run Windows 11 because of the TPM?
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ ... ew.en.html
Notably, there are two officially supported 32-bit ARM architectures: armel (soft float) and armhf (ARMv7 hardware float). This is inconvenient as the armhf binaries crash on a Pi 1 or Zero while armel runs at reduced performance.
With respect to the original post, since the amount of customisation in Raspberry Pi OS is significant, I can easily imagine people who started with a Pi would want to use the same desktop on a laptop.
People who started with Microsoft Windows might like the MATE desktop better--others KDE.
The first GUI I saw was on a Sun workstation but later used Silicon Graphics. Somehow I ended up preferring a stacking window manager with focus follows mouse no auto raise and find it frustrating if the active window has to be on top. I'm sorry to bore everyone with that.
The list of supported architectures for Trixie is atDebian Trixie dropped 32-bit support. For the Pi, the RPT folks did the work to support 32-bit Pis.I am not sure Debian Trixie even supports 32-bit. If I have to use an older Debian I might as well use a slightly older Raspberry Pi version.
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ ... ew.en.html
Notably, there are two officially supported 32-bit ARM architectures: armel (soft float) and armhf (ARMv7 hardware float). This is inconvenient as the armhf binaries crash on a Pi 1 or Zero while armel runs at reduced performance.
With respect to the original post, since the amount of customisation in Raspberry Pi OS is significant, I can easily imagine people who started with a Pi would want to use the same desktop on a laptop.
People who started with Microsoft Windows might like the MATE desktop better--others KDE.
The first GUI I saw was on a Sun workstation but later used Silicon Graphics. Somehow I ended up preferring a stacking window manager with focus follows mouse no auto raise and find it frustrating if the active window has to be on top. I'm sorry to bore everyone with that.
Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Tue Dec 09, 2025 5:46 am