08-14-2018, 05:12 PM
I'm not aware of videos showing rock64 as regular desktop computer, but you can read my blog post about using it for that purpose: https://a1w.ca/post-2018-01-01-year-of-t...sktop.html
I've been using mine daily for work for ~9 months and it works quite well.
For example: I often have Firefox running with 20+ tabs, Pluma text editor, ~10 terminal windows, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Kicad, LibreOffice, and a few other background programs running, CPU load typically sits at ~0.40 with Memory usage at ~1GB.
I don't watch videos or listen to audio on here, but I've tried watching a youtube video and it played fine at 720p, no skipping or anything. The problem is the youtube site + firefox = heavy JavaScript, so it slows Firefox to a crawl.
I have NoScript enabled by default to block all JS except for specific websites. This significantly improves the surfing experience.
Finally, I'm also using my rock64 to compile things (C, Go, Rust programs), to work with my smartphone's LineageOS, (android sdk), program my Arduino and other microcontrollers, and I sometimes edit images in Inkscape. This is all with the desktop (debian stretch + xfce4) and other things running, and so far 0 issues.
Basically, yes, this is more than suitable for desktop use.
I've been using mine daily for work for ~9 months and it works quite well.
For example: I often have Firefox running with 20+ tabs, Pluma text editor, ~10 terminal windows, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Kicad, LibreOffice, and a few other background programs running, CPU load typically sits at ~0.40 with Memory usage at ~1GB.
I don't watch videos or listen to audio on here, but I've tried watching a youtube video and it played fine at 720p, no skipping or anything. The problem is the youtube site + firefox = heavy JavaScript, so it slows Firefox to a crawl.
I have NoScript enabled by default to block all JS except for specific websites. This significantly improves the surfing experience.
Finally, I'm also using my rock64 to compile things (C, Go, Rust programs), to work with my smartphone's LineageOS, (android sdk), program my Arduino and other microcontrollers, and I sometimes edit images in Inkscape. This is all with the desktop (debian stretch + xfce4) and other things running, and so far 0 issues.
Basically, yes, this is more than suitable for desktop use.
