04-06-2021, 09:05 AM
(04-06-2021, 07:46 AM)guenther Wrote: ...Really hard to advise. I have been using Arm SBCs as my only desktop for a couple of years and am happy to cope with the limitations. Some things (like unusable YouTube playback) are possible to workaround (with youtube-dl). Some things (like slow GnuCash load times due to decompression algorithms) I get used to. Some things (like debos or signal) are a PITA because there is no aarch64 version.
Will I be happy with the RockPro64?
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But general browsing (with Firefox), email (Thunderbird), solitaire-like games, videos and music that are local and even photography (fotoxx), finance (gnucash) and family history (gramps) databases are all fine for me. As well as antything I want in LibreOffice.
One thing that can affect your experience is also a drive in the Arm ecosystem for low power consumption. Which I subscribe to as my RockPro64 is passively cooled. But it does mean e.g. Ondemand schedulling which impacts even stuff like SSD i/o - I can get better benchmark results (or gnucash load limes) if I want by switching to Performance schedulling when I get bothered which is not too often!
- ROCKPro64 v2.1 2GB, 16Gb eMMC for rootfs, SX8200Pro 512GB NVMe for /home, HDMI video & sound, Bluetooth keyboard & mouse. Arch (6.2 kernel, Openbox desktop) for general purpose daily PC.
- PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition, daily driver, rk2aw & U-boot on SPI, Arch/SXMO & Arch/phosh on eMMC
- PinePhone BraveHeart now v1.2b 3/32Gb, Tow-boot with Arch/SXMO on eMMC