Reply to post: I agree, I've always developed on ARM, well, since 1993

I agree, I've always developed on ARM, well, since 1993

1993, when I first got my hands on one.

Now it is true I was cross developing then because I was writing for one OS on a different OS (like for ARX on something cobbled together but still on an ARM). That was a disaster area.

These days I just use gentoo. Three or four years back there was a big problem because of several enormous piles of do-do all called \*wekbit\*; way too much memory for an RPi. There again a couple of months ago my attempt to build Mr Torvald's nut terminally crashed my x86 gentoo machine several times; the "kernel" whacked out with a simple sequence of reproducible steps:

1) make oldconfig

2) make --jobs

3) PSOD

I was running it under KDE of course, and it was (and is) booting via OpenRC, so his majesty might feel I was slightly disloyal (Off With His Head!)

VHS won the battle, and I guess x86 has too.