I ran Linux (Red Hat, Gentoo mostly, I think I used Slackware twice) in the late Nineties/early 2000s on home-built PCs. Linux on a full blown desktop PC is very different than Linux on an RPi4 due to the latter's limited hardware performance.

I can't imagine editing 4K video on the RPi4 would be joyful and yet smartphone owners have been doing this for years in a very efficient manner to the point where it's a mundane task to ask from these handsets.Įven a cheap Chromebook might be a better performer than the RPi4 as a general purpose computing device. The GPU in modern smartphones blow doors on the Raspberry Pi 4 and the disk I/O will also be better on a used iPad versus the RPi4.

I boot Raspbian twice a year only to check for RPi4 firmware updates.Īfter all a decent smartphone/tablet has better performance-per-dollar value and supports a far greater selection of useful applications. I despise desktop Linux but I suppose some masochist might be able to live with it as a primary device assuming they had a very, Very, VERY limited assortment of tasks and applications in their usage case. While the option is there to run 4K content at 30 Hz, in reality this is not a satisfactory user experience so I keep it at 1080p.

The device while running Kodi on LibreELEC is capable of satisfactory HD video playback in 1080p at 60 Hz provided the content isn't high bit rate otherwise it starts to get choppy or freezes. I own an original Raspberry Pi 4 configured to dual boot Raspbian and LibreELEC.

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