Re:Raspberry Pi 4
by apple4ever on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:45PM
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Absolutely this.
I mentioned it above, but just to reiterate- there are lots of great hardware boards out there and many beat the Pi (though the 4 makes up the different finally). However, they ALL have terrible software support: old OS's, bad drivers, out of date or incomplete documentation.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4
by gwilkes on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:09PM
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To add to this, the bad software support had very real performance implications as well. I was surprised to see benchmarks where the Pi 3 dominated boards that very clearly beat it on paper
Re:Raspberry Pi 4
by m463 on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:55PM
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That said, does the pi have accelerated graphics yet? I was playing with pygame (based on SDL) and I think all the blits and other operations were in software.
I mentioned it above, but just to reiterate- there are lots of great hardware boards out there and many beat the Pi (though the 4 makes up the different finally). However, they ALL have terrible software support: old OS's, bad drivers, out of date or incomplete documentation.
The Pi community makes it worth it to stay there.