**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · 2018-04-07T04:03:38Z

🔌💘🐶 @USBloveDog

How functional would a top-end #RaspberryPi be as a desktop computer? Uses: #mpsyt, #irc, #LaTeX, some #coding (#Python, #Elixir, #Swift, #C, #MUMPS), music & video playback from external HDD

Apr 07, 2018, 04:03 · Amaroq · 0 · 1

**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · Apr 07, 2018, 04:06

**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · Apr 07, 2018, 04:06

Namely: will a #Pi give me less #frustration than a 10 year old #MacBook Pro?

**elomatreb** @elomatreb@glitch.social · Apr 07, 2018, 04:09

**elomatreb** @elomatreb@glitch.social · Apr 07, 2018, 04:09

@USBloveDog Video playback with full-HD stuff and/or advanced codecs will be problematic, coding depends on what editor you want and how patient you are with your compiler

**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · Apr 07, 2018, 04:14

**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · Apr 07, 2018, 04:14

@elomatreb Maybe I’ll just SSH to my Mac or my VPS to compile. This means I may need to re-encode all those videos and make low-Rez copies for pi stuff

**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · Apr 07, 2018, 04:14

**🔌💘🐶** @USBloveDog · Apr 07, 2018, 04:14

@elomatreb (I use vim)

**b @** @bat · Apr 07, 2018, 04:21

**b @** @bat · Apr 07, 2018, 04:21

@USBloveDog
uh buddy it's prolly your dream setup, you could try running your projected pi things in qemu first and see what works out.
only thing is RAM, but i've seen some sbcs run 4k desktop displays and browse fine.