I just want the Manjaro Arm to not fizzle the gui’s and run Firefox at speeds faster than 1980s era internet…

Or any desktop distro, even gnome or ubuntu

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Relevant blog post.

      Remember when if your aunt wanted you to build her a computer that she’d only use for “web browsing”, that meant you could opt for the cheap components?

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        Last year, I got myself a new Camera, a Lumix S5, and after uploading some photos to DeviantArt (I have had the same account for almost 20 years) and browsing my gallery I realized that I had had enough.

        It was so slow and annoying to work with.

        So I sat down and started work on a simple webpage that I could host on a normal webhost.

        And I built a nice index page in HTML/CSS, and then used photo albums generated by digiKam for the photo albums.

        It loads fast, it is easy to navigate, fairly easy to update, and the photo albums can be navigated with arrow keys or swipe gestures.

        I am considering writing a blog UI for me to be able to make a simple blogging page, I’ll still write it in static HTML/CSS, so I’ll have to write every blog entry in HTML as it stands now, but I’ll keep looking for easier alternatives

        • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
          2·
          3 months ago

          Word. I often complain at work how programming and programmers seem to take “computing resources are cheap” as “USE FUCKING EVERYTHING”. There is fuckloads of bloat and web frameworks that are somehow marketed as “lightweight” despite making everything, even the development speed, worse in nearly every aspect.

          Video playback is a wholly different thing, tho, because of all the encoding/decoding that keeps file size down.

      • leisesprecher@feddit.org
        1·
        3 months ago

        But they should. Or at least comparable.

        Think about the difference between Reddit and Lemmy. They both offer similar functionality, but Reddit will set your phone on fire if it gets the chance.

        The same is true for YouTube. Browsing YouTube is scrolling through an image gallery, only video playback should be a problem. Yet, it will consume more resources than a well equipped laptop had when YouTube was launched. That’s insane.

        We’re moving in a direction where computers get faster and faster, but for the last 10 years or so, the actual utility of the system as a whole stagnated. Besides games, what can a modern computer do, that a 2014 model couldn’t?

        • Lumisal@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          3 months ago

          You think it’s bad now? Wait until ChatGPT is the one coding things.

          Modern hardware allows for bloat, and so bloat is made. Add in a huge helping of tracking everything you do, and you get a shit pi.

          Now repeat but also mess up the code some more.

          Behold: the true Web 3.0

          • normanwall@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            I am interested to see how people will use chatgpt along with reinforcement learning and brute force to optimise code

          • Emerald@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            You think it’s bad now? Wait until ChatGPT is the one coding things.

            I mean AI code is getting banned from tons of open source projects. I don’t expect a huge AI programming boom, except for proprietary software that I won’t use on my personal systems anyways

      • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, it’s amazing how upvoted the previous comment is. Just a bunch of idiots jumping on the web-hate bandwagon when even basic media players like Kodi have a tough time playing back video on the Pi.

        It just isn’t a very optimized device for video playback. The Pi 5 is actually a step backwards as well, providing only H265 hardware video decode which the web doesn’t even use.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          It’s weird to me hearing people say the Pi isn’t great for video playback when the SoC isn’t that dissimilar from what’s in a Roku box.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    all Linux distros

    This is not a Linux problem; Windows 10 would fare way worse. Maybe similar on a Pi 5, I’ve seen a review and it handles Full HD on either OS (only Linux can get consistent 1080p60 though).

  • megabat@lemm.ee
    0·
    3 months ago

    Huh. I use a Raspberry Pi 5 as a media center PC running Kodi / libreelec… Literally all it does is play videos and music. Even 4k h.265. This meme makes no sense to me.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      Kodi / Libreelec are in the same vein as Android TV. There extremely neutered operating systems that can basically only do that one thing, so if they failed at it, well…

      You can really edit documents, run YouTube with a decent UI, possibly use sponsor block, can’t do video game streaming.

      Actually, I take it back, Kodi etc are more limited than Android TV on the Pi, since at least that supports Steam Link and Moonlight streaming.

      So yeah, like Android, it can play the video. But it can do anything else like if I were to run any actual distro.

      • megabat@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 months ago

        Oh yeah it’s totally an appliance OS built around Kodi and not a general purpose OS. I do use it to watch YouTube though. I’ll “send to Kodi” from my phone and it plays on the TV. I use a full desktop computer for all the other stuff you mentioned. I only brought up Kodi on the raspi because this meme specifically calls out videos, which do work quite well (as long as it isn’t a vc1 encode apparently).

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I’m running an all the mods 6 Minecraft server on my pi 5 with zero lag

    No idea how video performance is but it’s got a dedicated GPU so supposedly better.

    Booting from an NVME, official heat sink/fan and proper power supply

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        2 or 3 at a time normally but I’m fairly sure it could handle more depending on modpack

        If you’re doing it you need to get absolutely all the optimisation mods you can for the version and most importantly pregenerate the world. Once you do those things with two or 3 on it’ll hover around 80% CPU usage

        I will say with 4 players on Infernal Origins it struggles, I suspect because it turns up the mob spawn rate, adds custom mob AI and generates massive unlit caves everywhere for them to spawn in

        On the ATM server we have 5 max upgraded apotheosis mob spawner grinders running 24/7 chunk loaded and the server’s still pretty snappy still