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I just want the Manjaro Arm to not fizzle the gui's and run Firefox at speeds faster than 1980s era internet...

Or any desktop distro, even gnome or ubuntu

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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Even on the Pi 5 the basic desktop environment in RPI OS with hardware acceleration working feels sluggish. I'm not sure if it's some weird power savings thing, but the pi just drops frames whenever it feels like it.

[-] krigo666@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The RPi 5 SoC does not have VP9 hardware decoding which is necessary for YouTube videos. Anything above 1080p30 inside a window will suck.

Weird part is that RPi4 SoC has it.

Edit: confirmed by Raspberry Pi Foundation themselves, only hardware video decoder is HEVC.

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Wait wtf really? That's dumb.

But I'm just talking about puttering around in the basic desktop environment, not even with a web browse. Just dragging around the file browser it will randomly lag for absolutely no reason.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I noticed that too - another reason I worked so hard trying to get that KDE Manjaro going - it was the only one which wasn't sluggish.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

using a Pi 4 4GB model as a desktop, I had the best luck with Ubuntu MATE.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Will try too

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

My Pi5 plays 1440p60 YT in Firefox with zero issue, from a high-performance SD card. The OS is sluggish, as another poster had mentioned. It could use an SSD.

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