[GTALUG] Raspberry Pi

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:58 AM mwilson--- via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> "Giles Orr" <gilesorr at gmail.com> said:
> > Hi Aruna.
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:56, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk
> > <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >> I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient
> >> desktop. I simply can't
> >> afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup so thought I
> >> will ask and see if
> >> anyone has a spare.
> >[ ... ]
> > I'm using a Pi 4 with 8G as a secondary desktop, and have been finding
> > it quite useful.  Mind you, I'm not using it for Gimp photo editing -
> > but I do use it for web browsing (not a lightweight activity) and it
> > handles that well.  I think you would find any of the 1G models
> > unsatisfactory as a desktop replacement: I wouldn't think about it
> > until it had 4G RAM, and I'd prefer the 8G.
>
> Memory might not be horribly tight.  I'm running a session now with half a
> dozen Image Viewer instances (~ 1Mpixel each), a Gimp instance with a
> half-dozen 2..3MByte .xcf's, and Firefox with a commercial page and this
> SquirrelMail page, and memory usage just cracked 1040MB, according to Task
> Manager.  Most data is on a USB hard drive, but that shouldn't matter.
> A 4GB Pi might be roomy, for a modest workload.
>

I just found that out on a virtualbox and Raspberry Pi using just 512Mb as
System Memory :-)


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