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I naively assumed, until today, that the whole point of using linux in docker was that you get the multi-arch goodness of linux for free!



Not at all. Docker on a raspberry pi is a massive pain in the ass. Half the images are not compiled for ARM.


Not a bit deal. Building ARM images from Dockerfiles is trivial. And it has the benefit of not having to trust an upstream image content. If you want to go the extra mile, contribute to the project to provide multi arch images support.


What multi-arch goodness of Linux? Linux can't magically run code from any architecture even without Docker in the mix, and unless someone is maintaining packages for your specific architecture, you're building them yourself.


As a non-processor geek, isn't M1 an arm chip? How long will it take arbitrary software to target it?


Yes but afaik most arm softwares target arm7, not aarch64.




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