[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: mwilson--- via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| I started with a 4GByte kit from ABRA in Montreal.  It did adequately
| replacing my old 1-core I386 desktop, mostly running Firefox and Gnu Image
| Manipulation Program.  GIMP seemed to encounter strange crashes with many
| images open, so I lately upgraded to an 8GByte kit from CanaKit in BC, as
| soon as they announced the 8GB.  It is also working well, with occasional
| GIMP crashes.  I don't have anything like benchmark results to tell you.

Last I checked, ordinary Raspbian was 32-bit only.  If Gimp's memory
use is within a single processs, it is limited to about 2 or 3G (I
don't remember which) of your 8G.

Switching to a 64-bit OS would let Gimp use most of your 8G.

As for crashing: do you know what kind of crash is happening?  Is it
worth reporting?