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What caused you to pick a Pi as your primary machine? Not doubting you, just interesting to see you have two 4K monitors yet just a pi for your computer

by dchuk 6y ago

ksaj 6y ago
I have other systems as well. My music production machine is loaded to the hilt Mac with stupid amounts of drive space and memory. I need it for recording music, and doing things to the occasional video. I believe in segregation of duty - it spends as little time connected to the network as necessary to stay updated, and that's about it. I also have an older iMac with a Wacom tablet, but again, segregation of duties. I got into the Raspberry Pi 3 because I was experimenting with MPI and didn't want to buy a full size/weight cluster. It wound up being kinda fun for everything else when I wasn't multi-processing, too. And it cleanly did everything except Youtube (which I've already mentioned). My music station is dual monitor (hence your question) and both monitors have two inputs... so of course when I bought a pi4 I plugged it into both immediately. The pi4 handles the load for my usual activity and my Lisp stuff, and I like the OS (Raspbian). Of course its slower than a typical desktop, but it's barely an issue - it's not particularly slow enough to matter for general things. It doesn't feel sluggish. Web pages take exactly the same amount of time and effort. The office suite runs perfectly fine. And Youtube doesn't stutter (although Chrome is the one thing that is clearly at its limits, according to the cpu meter...). So I just ended up doing most things there. I should add that I also have some Arduino bits and bobble, some robot kits, and a boatload of electronic gear. So it's not just random that I use the Pi a lot. I just ended up enjoying it enough to spend a lot of time on it. Its actually better than my laptop that continually reminds me why I'm not a Microsoft Windows fan. It's easy to back up, and if it broke down, meh, buy another. It keeps up, but won't hurt my bank if it blows up, either. I can run a lot of them silently. A lot of non-typical reasons, probably. I'm not a gamer, so although 8Gb will be better (I'll get one eventually) the 4Gb actually suites me fine.

What caused you to pick a Pi as your primary machine? Not doubting you, just interesting to see you have two 4K monitors yet just a pi for your computer

by dchuk 6y ago

What caused you to pick a Pi as your primary machine? Not doubting you, just interesting to see you have two 4K monitors yet just a pi for your computer

ksaj 6y ago

I have other systems as well. My music production machine is loaded to the hilt Mac with stupid amounts of drive space and memory. I need it for recording music, and doing things to the occasional video. I believe in segregation of duty - it spends as little time connected to the network as necessary to stay updated, and that's about it. I also have an older iMac with a Wacom tablet, but again, segregation of duties. I got into the Raspberry Pi 3 because I was experimenting with MPI and didn't want to buy a full size/weight cluster. It wound up being kinda fun for everything else when I wasn't multi-processing, too. And it cleanly did everything except Youtube (which I've already mentioned). My music station is dual monitor (hence your question) and both monitors have two inputs... so of course when I bought a pi4 I plugged it into both immediately. The pi4 handles the load for my usual activity and my Lisp stuff, and I like the OS (Raspbian). Of course its slower than a typical desktop, but it's barely an issue - it's not particularly slow enough to matter for general things. It doesn't feel sluggish. Web pages take exactly the same amount of time and effort. The office suite runs perfectly fine. And Youtube doesn't stutter (although Chrome is the one thing that is clearly at its limits, according to the cpu meter...). So I just ended up doing most things there. I should add that I also have some Arduino bits and bobble, some robot kits, and a boatload of electronic gear. So it's not just random that I use the Pi a lot. I just ended up enjoying it enough to spend a lot of time on it. Its actually better than my laptop that continually reminds me why I'm not a Microsoft Windows fan. It's easy to back up, and if it broke down, meh, buy another. It keeps up, but won't hurt my bank if it blows up, either. I can run a lot of them silently. A lot of non-typical reasons, probably. I'm not a gamer, so although 8Gb will be better (I'll get one eventually) the 4Gb actually suites me fine.