You can use Fedora on arm64/aarch64, they have a page about this on their wiki page[0]. They also have docs to install it on the Pi 4[1]. While not officially supported, there are people on the forums who have successfully installed it on the Pi 5[2].

You don't necessarily have to go for a Debian base if you don't want to, I completely understand that.

[0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/
[2]: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/i-got-fedora-40-41-working-on-my-raspberry-pi-5/120319

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From:

Pocket <pocket@columbus.rr.com>

Sent: 4 September 2025 16:54:03 UTC
To:

arch-general@lists.archlinux.org

Subject:

Re: Trouble registering with Arch ARM forum

On 9/4/25 11:51 AM, Juergen Werner wrote:

On 2025-09-04 17:30, kelson+arch@kvibber.com wrote:

I've been trying to register for the Arch Linux ARM forums off and on for a few weeks. Before the DDOS attacks, I was able to get through the registration form, but never received any confirmation emails (yes, I looked in junk mail). When I tried again this week, figuring I'd try using an address from a more well-known provider, I found the captcha no longer loads, so I can't even get through the form.

The JS console reports `ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID` on trying to load `cap.js` from the third-party keycaptcha domain, which seems a likely culprit.

Is there anyone here connected with the ARM forum who could look into fixing the captcha or the missing emails? I didn't get any response on IRC, or from the one email address listed on the Arch ARM website (which isn't for the forums, I know, but I figured it was worth a shot), and the main Arch forum admins told me to ask the ARM forum admins, despite the fact that the forum doesn't list any admin contact info if you aren't logged in. Which I can't be, because the problem is that I can't get through the registration form.

Administrator group member kmihelich seems to be the only active visitor to the forum in recent years. According to the information in the forum, they go by "leming" on #archlinuxarm.
The whole ArchLinuxARM project sadly seems to be recently slightly undermaintained.

Cheers

I am using Archlinuxarm for raspberry pi 4 and 5. Server and desktop. It works very well but I am having second thoughts because it appears to be randomly maintained.

I dislike the foundations OS which is debian arm with packages added to make it work for raspberry pi. debian support is like having diarrhea for 6 months and is just as helpful.

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