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I’ve been trying to use a pi4 as a desktop, with xfce, and was a bit disappointed. It’s usable but less than an old iPad. So I was surprised you got by with a p
by msk-lywenn 5y ago
I’ve been trying to use a pi4 as a desktop, with xfce, and was a bit disappointed. It’s usable but less than an old iPad. So I was surprised you got by with a pi2! I’ll have to give that h264ify a go.
For games, I was super pleasantly surprised to rediscover old open source games that I had completely forgot and actually love: frozen bubbles, neverball and monsterz :)
- marcodiego 5y agoMy mindset goes like this: in the early 90's, if I had a Sun SparcStation, I could do all this; a raspi2 is reasonably on par with that, so I should be able to do the same with a raspi2. What makes it a bit harder is that some software that ran on a SparcStation was carefully tailored to that machine while Chromium is not actually designed specifically for a raspi2... But you can go by with it. This thread gives some hints that I didn't try at the time like changing the cpu governor or using zswap. I didn't even overclocked it out of fear to reduce its lifespan. But you of course, you're limited by what you can do and how you do it. I even began contributing to gnu-nano because I needed some features that weren't available on it and never got used to emacs/vim, but that is another story.
- tomcooks 5y agoDietpi allows you to improve performance, overclock the CPU, etc