Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux Date: 6 Jan 2025 18:41:14 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <0admnjlaiv49ufbbj553hqkj36adqfotvb@4ax.com> <%ySeP.29021$nlJ1.14410@fx41.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net bXWfbH9ET8zrFf3LaXyI9AygYsU9n8SHoerloTqFWcJzf84Umy Cancel-Lock: sha1:2qng6oDyxpO9rscEpOHQyTjZKcM= sha256:RsIC5wxdebqwXcEl9495Rzsu7K2CM7L1HlCuB2NLlbU= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:683147 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.