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I'm thinking of buying the Raspberry Pi 400 and I see Ubuntu MATE indeed has a 64-bit Raspberry Pi port. While the "400" apparently has some compatibility issue
by jug 6y ago
I'm thinking of buying the Raspberry Pi 400 and I see Ubuntu MATE indeed has a 64-bit Raspberry Pi port. While the "400" apparently has some compatibility issues in some scenarios, it's essentially a higher clocked Pi 4. Assuming it's working, I wonder if it's performant as a Raspberry Pi OS alternative to the official distro? I think I prefer a cleaner MATE over the default stuff.
Edit: Oh I see now I essentially posted in parallel with another question about the Pi running this. Well, there are images for it at least!
- black_puppydog 6y agoAs I said in the other P400 thread, yes, this is quite nice to use. Pay attention to which apps you use: electron/node based apps will quickly make this a drag. Use script/ad blockers (umatrix...) to save on web resources. Be weary of e.g. bash prompts that traverse the file system (to show git status or such) as these things will be slow on an sd card system.
- mcbits 6y agoI have a Pi 4 (8 GB) with Ubuntu MATE and the main flaw I've run into is that a lot of programs don't scale down to the little 1024x600 LCD I hoped to use with it. Of course, that will be a problem with any distro on such a small screen. On a regular monitor it's just a bit sluggish, but no worse and perhaps a little faster than the official OS. Plenty usable as a low-end desktop. I don't think it has even come close to exhausting 8 GB (looks like the 400 only has a 4 GB version?). I just wanted some head room there.