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My Raspberry Pi 3B seems to be slow and hangs when I try to install packages, however, I still want to use it due to its low power usage compared to newer Pi's.

I just wanted to know if I can use a more powerful Pi, like the Raspberry Pi 5 or even other brands, to install packages using their better hardware specs onto a microSD card, and then move the microSD to the Raspberry Pi 3B. Would there be compatibility issues, say due to the fact that package installations and software updates were performed using a different model?

The operating system I am working with is Lubuntu.

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The latest 32 bit Raspberry Pi OS is usable in all models and earlier OS work in models available at the time of introduction (provided that they are up to date).

The 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS works in all 64 bit models (Pi3 or later).

The Pi5 (if you can get one) only supports Bookworm 64 bit which currently only "works" on Pi4 or 5 and is still incomplete.

The same can not be said for Ubuntu (version unspecified) as there are multiple versions available for different processors but may; you can try. Some have ARM7 or ARM8 specific apps.

Milliways
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