![]() Shame YouTube isn’t smart enough to do that for you. ![]() Update: the fix for Youtube is apparently the h264ify Chrome extension, which forces Youtube videos to H.264 instead of VP9. Again, maybe a symptom of something more serious being wrong than just system load. CPUs aren’t overtaxed but the sound playback is choppy and awful. I can’t watch a single Youtube video at 240p even with nothing else going on and the window minimized (sound, no picture). Super sluggish, regularly pins all 4 CPUs at 100%, and uses a lot of memory per tab. Chromium is a little better, apparently someone put some real effort into optimizing it for the RPi. I started with Firefox which was a mistake the aarch64 build of that is really slow and memory hungry. Beginning to suspect a bug in their Javascript code exacerbated by the relatively low system. The wordpress editor is worse than ever though. ![]() Bluetooth config works! Youtube audio playback is mostly fine but pauses every once in awhile when something else is happening. It’s much lighter weight than Ubuntu Gnome and it’s coherent in the RPi build, much better than my janky LXDE. Update 2: Raspberry Pi Desktop is indeed better. LightDM is a big improvement too the Gnome Display Manager is a huge hog for something that’s just a freakin’ login box. Responsiveness is much better and memory usage is much lower although this WordPress editor still drags. The ubuntu install I did is pretty janky but that’s probably my fault, I bet the integrated Raspberry Pi Desktop experience is nicer. Update: I tried LXDE on Ubuntu, the desktop environment Raspberry PI Desktop uses, and it’s much better. I briefly tried them and they did seem faster but they were also uglier. I might have luck with lighter GUIs – Lubuntu and Xfce are both recommended. I’m using the default Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome desktop. I wonder if something more serious is wrong? I really don’t understand the terrible latency on user inputs, even when several CPUs are idle and I have 1.0GB RAM available (currently allocated to buffers and cache). It’s much better in a Gnome terminal but even then there’s sometimes a perceptible subsecond delay. There’s regularly 5 second delays between typing something and it showing up on my screen here in the WordPress editor, in the URL bar of a browser, pretty much in any GUI. Graphics and sound basically worked out of the box. Newer RPi4 can boot directly off USB, no need for an SD card at all. The Raspberry Pi people have a GUI app that installs bootable operating system images. Installation is remarkably easy and clean. (Which itself is odd it should be 500MB/s. The system is installed to a SSD connected with USB3 that gets 250MB/s in benchmarks. I’m using this on a stock RPi4 with 4GB of RAM and the basic boost overclocking enabled. ![]() Which is a little ridiculous given how much more capable this hardware is than the systems of 10 years ago. I think the hardware is just too underpowered. I decided to give a Raspberry Pi 4 a go as a Ubuntu desktop. I’m trying a second time now with Raspberry Pi OS (LXDE) and it’s going much better, new post coming. Update this whole post was written using Ubuntu 64 bit with Gnome on an RPi 4. ![]()
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