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Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux
Date	2025-01-06 18:41 +0000
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 10:22:35 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> And you would probably have a superior experience. My understanding is
> that if I had an ARM machine, a Linux distribution with full software
> support would already be available to me. With Windows, _some_
> applications might have been ported over to work natively, whereas most
> would be running in emulation and not allowing me to benefit from ARM's
> features.

It isn't meant to be a full laptop experience but the Raspberry Pi 5 
running the Debian derived Raspberry Pi OS shows what is possible. It has 
Chromium or Firefox for broswers, a modified LXDE DE and move importantly 
for me, VS Code. It has Vim but not Gvim. I think that has to do with the 
Gtk version.  People have put other distros on as well.

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Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-04 11:03 -0500
  Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL x86, ZERO ARM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-04 21:57 +0000
    Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL x86, ZERO ARM rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-05 00:31 +0000
      Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL x86, ZERO ARM RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-05 13:48 +0000
        Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL x86, ZERO ARM rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-05 21:23 +0000
          Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL x86, ZERO ARM RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 10:25 +0000
            Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL x86, ZERO ARM rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-06 18:22 +0000
  Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-05 20:45 -0500
    Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-06 07:42 -0500
      Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-06 13:46 -0500
    Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-06 10:22 -0500
      Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-06 10:29 -0500
      Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-06 18:41 +0000

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