• ferret
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    826 days ago

    I would personally avoid the pi 5 for desktop computing purely because it only has micro/mini (whatever they call them) HDMI ports, imo they are kinda awful.

    Also do note that being an arm device you will be limited on proprietary software and even among foss stuff will likely have to compile some things yourself.

    (P.S. you probably don’t mind if you are considering such a device, but PC gaming on arm devices will take much more setup and the performance might be disappointing when using a x86 emulator like FEX)

    • @[email protected]
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      726 days ago

      Yeah, honestly I don’t see the use case for pi as a desktop.

      It’s cool to have it as a second device running little things you want to have up more of the time, but the desktop performance would be pretty limiting imo for most people.