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Well, perhaps, but I really don't understand why people buy Raspberry Pis and try to use them as desktop machine. I mean, this thing doesn't even come with a ca
by jwr 14y ago
Well, perhaps, but I really don't understand why people buy Raspberry Pis and try to use them as desktop machine. I mean, this thing doesn't even come with a case, it is clearly not a desktop. It's a hacker's tool.
There is the second crowd that wants to use them as poor-man's video devices, hooked up to TVs. That's fine, and I actually tried running Raspbmc on it. It works. Kind of. Until it breaks. But it isn't your optimal, finely polished and tuned media machine. And I really don't think there is much point in doing it.
The Pi is a hacker's tool. It's great for learning, hobby electronics, various interfacing needs, and lots of other things. But it isn't a notebook, it isn't a desktop, and it isn't a media device.
- jlgreco 14y agoAs I see it, the value in a pi is that it is balanced. You can get cheaper devices, you can get devices with more GPIO, you can get devices with lower power consumption, and more powerful devices. The Pi sits in a sweet spot with all of those factors though, things like usb-dongle computers and openwrt friendly routers push all of those nobs one way or the other. Also, maybe I'm weird but I have never liked xbmc regardless of the device; it is just plain shitty. The pi that I'm using as my home server/media player right now I just use with omxplayer. After years of just using mplayer that is much more comfortable to me. Of course I also use my Roku primarily with curl...