Best OS for general use?

[androsch]

Hey everybody, I just decided to start looking into my Pine board, and I am looking to use it as a general messenger, web surfer box. Nothing fancy, Gmail, youtube, etc. The Pi 2 is painfully slow using raspbian, so I was hoping this would be faster. I'm ok with using Android if need be.

Output is 1080p but possibly eventually 4k (monitor).

Wired network connection.

Any suggestions on which OS is currently the most stable/fastest for those uses?

For me the Xenial build based on longsleep kernel of April 3rd works fine. Added xfce and mate desktop, both with acceptable performance. Main problem at the moment is a 'good' browser, firefox is crashing and chromium not available yet. Midori works fine, but you have to decide yourself...

Running websites with heavy load (including videos and much advertising) my pine gets hot (about 80°, according to longsleep thats fine), but still usable...

Did try Remix also, but had no success, others reported Android to work fine also, depending from your config.

So try yourself, have fun....

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