Subj : Re: what best for low power use the rpi or eles
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Blue White
Date : Thu Feb 08 2024 08:24 am

 > I
 > tried using a Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 as a desktop, neither were very
 > good.

I have a Pi 3 that I use for some desktop activities.  It is really good
with programs that don't eat up a lot of resources, like claws mail and
gnumeric.  However, it has a lot of difficulty with a modern web browser
(vs. most "modern" sites that are loaded up with crap), and with video
streaming (from YT) or playback with vlc.

You watch those videos of people reviewing some of these sbcs on YT and
you really wonder how on earth they got the results they did.  My
experience is that most of them do not perform near as well in my
real-life.

The Pi 2 I have quickly lost xwindows.  It works a lot better as a cli
only machine.



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