I’m typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.
Be aware that Brave is essentially a scam and there are other privacy-focused browsers that might suit your needs.
Nah brave is fine. Just disable the crypto stuff like everyone else
I do not trust the CEO, the company, or the product. Here are a couple links, I’m certain there are more:
Wasn’t aware of that last one, thats not great…
Im not married to brave and would switch if i found something better, but the first two points seem like a non-issue to me tbh. The auto complete is coming from their free search engine. What do you think happens when a service with ongoing costs is free?
As for the second one, I did mention to just turn off all the crypto stuff… The way they do it is fairly common with general donations elsewhere anyway.
I just find brave works well on all my devices, and has a good cross device sync. Nothing else I have tried could match it.
What’s wrong with Firefox? They’ve been around a long time and are currently in a good spot as far as speed/compatibility goes
I have tried it out a few times in the last couple of years and inevitably run into sites that just won’t work with it. Especially at work. I keep hoping it gets better, but it never seems to.
I can understand that. Given even edge runs a modified chromium if I recall correctly, everything is being developed for that. I use edge since its built in when sites aren’t working, which isn’t often for me. That said, on my work laptop, I use exclusively edge.
I am sure you can, but you will likely get better performance from a mini PC for roughly the same price.
Yeah, an intel N95 puck will absolutely demolish any Pi. By the time you add a case, a drive, a stable power brick, enough memory, a cooler, you’re at the same price. With a PC, you’re getting an NVME drive (2 pcie3.0 lanes because Intel can’t let it eat the i3 market) @ 800MB/s. With a Pi, you are living off of a microSD card running at 50MB/s (and that craters with any writing or seeking).
But the Pi 5 doesn’t play well with the regular smartphone power adapters. It’s a good thing that I got the official power adapter. You should get one, too.
You just need the right voltage
Edit: that’s just an ad for a raspberry pi cooler.
You can also use the official cooler for 6€ https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/active-cooler/
I own two Raspberries 1, a Raspberry 4 8GB and a Raspberry 5 8GB. I wouldn’t recommend the 4 as a full-fledged desktop replacement, but the 5 has been very smooth so far.
I’m currently using the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite and installed KDE on top.
I do. Installed Ubuntu on my Pi 5. It’s for my kid’s school work and web browsing. I use it also for some software development (VSCode, Angular and Go).
There’s even a MX release for Pi https://mxlinux.org/download-links/
I used a Pi 4 as a desktop computer for awhile. If you’re going to do that, get the most RAM you can.
I also ended up using Ubuntu MATE rather than Raspberry Pi OS. PiOS didn’t hold up do daily use, their PIXEL desktop isn’t particularly well made.
Never used it but yep you probably could. I’ve took a look at it’s specs and it is has powerful as og vintage laptop we love to use.
they have come a long way since the old pi 2 that would max out it’s cpu just wiggling the mouse around on the desktop
