When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385

Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by iLoveOncall on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:19PM (#50431381)

The 1GB RPI4 can definitely not be used as a main desktop. I make my son use a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM to code simple stuff for school, and it's barely usable because the UI is extremely laggy.

You are the one making up a situation here.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by Aurornis on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:40PM (#50431754)

Please read the comment thread you're responding to.

I'll quote it for you:

> A Pi 4 is my son's primary computer

So, no, I am not making up a situation.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by Chaosvex on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:44PM (#50433355)

He's telling you that it'd run terribly with 1GB. He's not wrong.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by opan on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:09PM (#50432195)

Maybe you could get a bit more perf out of it using a lighter environment. Sway and a terminal text editor (if vim is too much for your son, maybe micro would be better for its CUA binds) would probably run well. Avoid the web browser, or maybe try a lighter one like w3m.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by Chaosvex on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:45PM (#50433366)

There's compromising and then there's just not having a usable machine.

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