> It wasn't feasible to browse the web despite being a better CPU than I used for the web many years ago. Sad but true. Browsers (and Electron-style apps) gorg

> It wasn't feasible to browse the web despite being a better CPU than I used for the web many years ago. Sad but true. Browsers (and Electron-style apps) gorge on CPU and memory and then want more. Office 365 on a 3 GHz x86 seems about as responsive as desktop Word would have been on an 8 MHz 68K. > I think I was using framebuffer based graphics drivers, at full HD. So maybe I paid a price for that, and a proper GPU accelerated X would do better Makes a big difference. > SD cards are slow. Maybe disk access over USB would do better USB is much better (as long as it's not a slow USB flash drive.) Also Linux distributions constantly write to the filesystem, which is annoying and probably contributes to the issue that turning off or rebooting a Pi can destroy the SD card.