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Increasingly yes. I am in that group now. Basically, my hobby development has moved to Raspi machines. I use a 400 as my primary station and various 3 and 4
by ddingus 3y ago
Increasingly yes.
I am in that group now. Basically, my hobby development has moved to Raspi machines. I use a 400 as my primary station and various 3 and 4 models to do projects with.
One very nice thing is to package everything up with a Pi and have that project be self-contained. Dev tools, I/O whatever all nice and compact.
Start another project? Just setup another Pi and go.
Having a higher performance model means moving more of what I do onto a Pi. Things like VS Code run reasonably, but not great. On the 4, many things are close to great.
The 5 appears capable enough to change that equation.
Nice!
- smcl 3y agoFair play then. I genuinely thought it was just a little dev/experiment/prototype platform for people, as it was for me. If this is what you need then god speed!
- ddingus 3y agoIt is often that, so fair on your part too. What I have seen happen is people basically get going on Raspian and start to like it. Myself, I have used UNIX flavors since SGI IRIX and I find Raspian simple, well supported and easy to use. A fast Pi, plus a solid load of OSS packs quite a punch! Dev tools for many languages. Open, Libre Office and friends suddenly makes for a very cheap, effective desktop one can use to get a whole lot done. Anyone inclined to work with OSS can grab one of these little Pi computers can do a lot. I use them that way frequently.