RE: Raspberry Pi Foundation now recommends 64 bit operating system
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Might have to give this version a go now then, I've avoided it till now due to stability issues plus porting projects over but gotta move with the times.
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Really? Most things are quite solid on a Raspberry Pi, if it is supported.
With the 32 bit version yes, but I have read about some issues with 64 when Ive been building stuff on mine, although that has been a while now. The raspberry Pi foundation even stated it as unstable themselves for quite some time although clearly that is fixed now if they are advocating it.
64 bit version has been around for a long time, all the way back since the Pi 3 release. It was also just listed but not recommended. They are now fully recommending it.
I believe there has been two released of 64 bit, one was Raspberian 64 bit, then one when they migrated to Ubuntu which was basically compiling everything for ARM and hope for the best. Since then, they have made a lot of improvements to optimize and make sure things work on ARM and not just "compile and pray".
There are still some known issues, but the list is fairly short, but there is no question other things they haven't tested may still have problems.
Basically it has been improved greatly but your mileage may vary. Test for your own situation, and hopefuly you report what doesn't work so it can get addressed.
Oh yea Im not saying it to demonise the Pi, I love mine and new OS builds are always flakey at first. I will deffo give it a pop next time I do a fresh install on one just been waiting for this announcement before making the jump.