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Here was my experience a few weeks ago: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook-pro-raspberry-pi-4-8gb-day https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blo

Here was my experience a few weeks ago: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook-pro-raspberry-pi-4-8gb-day https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/i-replaced-my-macbook... Just as a helpful data point.

gorgoiler 6y ago
Thanks! That’s very helpful. For reference, my day is spent: • editing code, markdown, and asciidoc for classes; • managing pupil work in repl.it, GitHub, and Google Classroom; • managing pupil reports and records of work in custom school IT web applications; and • emailing with colleagues and pupils with outlook’s webmail. If I can get a snappy and correctly scaled terminal and browser — which I think you’ve managed after some effort — I hope it will work out well. I have a 4k LG display at home which might be the biggest pain point. Rest assured though it’s good ole 1080p all the way, at school: HDMI1 for my private desktop and HDMI2 for the 80” class display. I am optimistic this is a workload that an ARM desktop can handle.
gorgoiler 6y ago
Followup: this was very helpful, thank you. As much for the technical content as the inspiration that it could be viable. No, it didn’t really work out for you. Yes, it’s working out great for me! Konsole with Terminus is an aesthetically pleasing environment in which to work, 8 hours a day. i3 in 4k, even at 30Hz, looks great. Vim renders fast (66-80ms keyboard latency.) eog, evince, and gimp let me fiddle with materials. gnome-screenshot copies to the clipboard for rapidly sharing notes with others, based on what I have on screen. davmail transparently connects dumb IMAP clients to the corporate email, address book, and calendaring systems. I have an XBiff alerting me to incoming Outlook emails! REPL.it is slow in Firefox but fast in Chromium. It’s going to work just fine for managing pupils’ class work. My home directory is encrypted and mounted on login. Mutt and offlineimap let me handle last term’s mail in bulk. Python and git and tmux let me prepare and mark work from the students, or at least they should do come next term. I have all my little tools working to give me an excellent markdown environment for note taking on classes and pupils and meetings. Asciidoctor for the more typographically demanding class materials. Absolutely all of this was a breeze to set up because all of these technologies just work in Raspbian/Debian on armhf. It has, so far, been unbelievably clean and pleasant. I even have LXC working locally, for running Unix and IPv6 experiments with multiple little Alpine “VMs”. χ!

gorgoiler 6y ago

Thanks! That’s very helpful. For reference, my day is spent: • editing code, markdown, and asciidoc for classes; • managing pupil work in repl.it, GitHub, and Google Classroom; • managing pupil reports and records of work in custom school IT web applications; and • emailing with colleagues and pupils with outlook’s webmail. If I can get a snappy and correctly scaled terminal and browser — which I think you’ve managed after some effort — I hope it will work out well. I have a 4k LG display at home which might be the biggest pain point. Rest assured though it’s good ole 1080p all the way, at school: HDMI1 for my private desktop and HDMI2 for the 80” class display. I am optimistic this is a workload that an ARM desktop can handle.

gorgoiler 6y ago

Followup: this was very helpful, thank you. As much for the technical content as the inspiration that it could be viable. No, it didn’t really work out for you. Yes, it’s working out great for me! Konsole with Terminus is an aesthetically pleasing environment in which to work, 8 hours a day. i3 in 4k, even at 30Hz, looks great. Vim renders fast (66-80ms keyboard latency.) eog, evince, and gimp let me fiddle with materials. gnome-screenshot copies to the clipboard for rapidly sharing notes with others, based on what I have on screen. davmail transparently connects dumb IMAP clients to the corporate email, address book, and calendaring systems. I have an XBiff alerting me to incoming Outlook emails! REPL.it is slow in Firefox but fast in Chromium. It’s going to work just fine for managing pupils’ class work. My home directory is encrypted and mounted on login. Mutt and offlineimap let me handle last term’s mail in bulk. Python and git and tmux let me prepare and mark work from the students, or at least they should do come next term. I have all my little tools working to give me an excellent markdown environment for note taking on classes and pupils and meetings. Asciidoctor for the more typographically demanding class materials. Absolutely all of this was a breeze to set up because all of these technologies just work in Raspbian/Debian on armhf. It has, so far, been unbelievably clean and pleasant. I even have LXC working locally, for running Unix and IPv6 experiments with multiple little Alpine “VMs”. χ!