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I have many Pis lying around as well. I have DNS servers, torrent servers and I also run a k3s cluster on RPi3s. It's okay-ish for these kind of projects. Howe

by atmosx 5y ago

I have many Pis lying around as well. I have DNS servers, torrent servers and I also run a k3s cluster on RPi3s. It's okay-ish for these kind of projects. However as a desktop it is not. The Pi400 I am testing as a desktop generally doesn't run smoothly. I've tried various distros and now I'm toying around with NetBSD. The browser (firefox/chrome) are slow and the system constantly gets "stuck". It's not smooth for daily use, e.g. writing a blog post? Even that will not be a smooth experience most of the time. My SD cards are EVO Pro 60 MB/s read 90 MB/s write cards. What are you using?

somehnguy 5y ago
Ah, sorry I totally brushed through the fact that the Pi400 is meant as a desktop replacement. Yeah I don't think I would be happy using any pi speed device as my desktop, they're just too slow in my opinion. I use my pis as servers as well, though I recently phased out a pi2b that was running homebridge, it was just too slow and devices would report as 'offline' randomly because of it. On the pi4 though I'm using 2x Octoprint instances in Docker and couldn't be happier. Going to pick up another 4 to run Home Assistant/ESPHome/any 'smart home' software because it is temporarily all dockerized on my ZFS server. For PSUs I use the official RPI ones, they completely eliminated any weird issues I had using even plenty rated random ones I have lying around. As far as SD cards I grab whatever Walmart/Target/BestBuy have in stock at the moment with a U3 rating. Haven't had any corruption or speed issues with that combo, and I semi-frequently reboot by just yanking the power instead of walking upstairs to the computer.