Is it reasonable to use a Raspberry Pi 4 as main desktop in 2020?

geerlingguy · on May 23, 2020

I know a few kids who have a Pi as their only computer; they can do most things they need to do, and it comes with Minecraft. They quickly outgrow it if they end up needing to do more work on the computer or media work, but the Pi 4 is not a slouch.

NikolaeVarius · on May 23, 2020

Meh? I currently Dev on a Jetson Nano, which is fine except I wish i had 8gb of ram, rather than 4.

Using a not GNOME DE made a lot of my problems go away.

pengaru · on May 23, 2020

I know an artist/dev who uses one exclusively, but it's kind of weird to see listed as a "Mini PC" since it's not x86.

If you have any intention of using something PC-centric like Steam to play even simple games, it's not supported on ARM yet.