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I've been thinking about such text-based DE for custom Raspberry Pi nano based smartphone. Reason being, common mobile apps are not going to arrive for Linux an
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
I've been thinking about such text-based DE for custom Raspberry Pi nano based smartphone. Reason being, common mobile apps are not going to arrive for Linux and Nano is not powerful enough to run web browsers anyways; So why not a text-based DE or even just a console which enables basic communication features and Lynx for browsing?
It would be great if we could get some GPU juice from Pi for text rendering in such environment like how iTerm2 does on macOS.
- ajford 6y agoAre you talking about a Pi Zero? That can totally run a desktop environment and browser. Especially something light like XFCE or Enlightenment.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago>Pi Zero? Correct, sorry brain fart. >That can totally run a desktop environment and browser. Especially something light like XFCE or Enlightenment Even regular sized Pi struggle with web browsing on a standard browser (Firefox/Chromium), I know that it largely has to do with the web pages themselves being memory hogs, but then again a similar specced Chromebook x86 doesn't hang while browsing(Same web page/Same no of Tabs); I think it largely has to do with browsers not getting optimised for ARM architecture on Linux. I had the same issue with XFCE i.e. browsers hang after sometime, as for Enlightenment 3rd party apps didn't work last time I tried with Pi3[1] has the situation changed now? [1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experience-on-raspberry-pi/ https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien...