On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:58 AM mwilson--- via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
"Giles Orr" <gilesorr@gmail.com> said:
Hi Aruna.
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:56, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: [ ... ]
I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient desktop. I simply can't afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup so thought I will ask and see if anyone has a spare. [ ... ] I'm using a Pi 4 with 8G as a secondary desktop, and have been finding it quite useful. Mind you, I'm not using it for Gimp photo editing - but I do use it for web browsing (not a lightweight activity) and it handles that well. I think you would find any of the 1G models unsatisfactory as a desktop replacement: I wouldn't think about it until it had 4G RAM, and I'd prefer the 8G.
Memory might not be horribly tight. I'm running a session now with half a dozen Image Viewer instances (~ 1Mpixel each), a Gimp instance with a half-dozen 2..3MByte .xcf's, and Firefox with a commercial page and this SquirrelMail page, and memory usage just cracked 1040MB, according to Task Manager. Most data is on a USB hard drive, but that shouldn't matter. A 4GB Pi might be roomy, for a modest workload.
I just found that out on a virtualbox and Raspberry Pi using just 512Mb as System Memory :-)
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