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		bigfatkitten 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened to running what you wanted on your o... Raspberry Pi is one of the least open platforms around. Broadcom SOCs preferred by Raspberry Pi require proprietary blobs to function, and much of their functionality is buried under a mountain of NDAs.

Rohansi 6 months ago [–]

That's the current norm for GPUs, no? The Raspberry Pi just happens to use a SoC where the GPU is the primary processor. I wouldn't say it's worse - it's maybe slightly better but still close to par.

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