Re: [orca-list] Mini PCs with linux?

[Simon Eigeldinger <simon eigeldinger vol at>]

Hi Chris and Kyle,

Thanks for the info.
will contact you again when i have decided what to do.

Greetings,
Simon


Am 27.10.2017 um 19:09 schrieb Storm Dragon:
> Howdy,
> I am using ratpoison on mine, it doesn't have all the fancy GUI stuff 
> like panels and what not, but it is lightning fast and leaves a lot of 
> resources open for the stuff you need to get done. Libre office is 
> installed and works well when I use it.
>
> I'm running an Odroid XU4 with 8 cores and 2GB of ram. My GUI browser is 
> Seamonkey only because it seems to perform better with fewer slow downs 
> that Firefox. That is interesting if only because Seamonkey includes 
> thunderbird and chatzilla all in the same program, so you'd think it 
> would be slower and use more resources than stand alone Firefox.
>
> I tend to use a more CLI approach to computing, but I do know my way 
> around the GUI, and Pidgin works well, as does gnome-terminal and pretty 
> much anything else. With my setup running at full steam, this is how my 
> memory situation looks:
>
>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   
> available
> Mem:           1.9G        844M         83M         44M        
> 1.0G        1.0G
> Swap:            0B          0B          0B
>
> You may notice that there is no swap. I have heard that sap is bad for 
> the eMMC chips, so I only turn it on when compiling something that may 
> cause it to run out of memory like Mumble. Speaking of which, since I am 
> blind and don't really need certain features Mumble has to offer, like 
> overlay, I install the mumble-snapshot-minimal package from the AUR. It 
> seems a bit snappier when navigating it. It is also quite a bit more 
> accessible than the QT4 version available from the official repositories.
>
> When building packages from the AUR, sometimes you will need to edit the 
> PKGBUILD and change the architecture  to include armv7h. I made an alias 
> to make it easier, so all I have to do is run cower -d package name, cd 
> to the created directory and type abuild. Here, for the sake of 
> completeness, is the alias:
>
> alias abuild='sed -i '\''s/^arch=(.*)$/arch=("armv7h" "i686" 
> "x86_64")/'\'' PKGBUILD && makepkg -cris'
>
> Of course any of us who run ARM machines will be glad to help if you 
> need it. Look at the bottom of this message at signature info for ways 
> to get in touch.
>
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:51:33PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> > I use the MATE desktop on mine, and it works quite well for most 
> > things. Firefox has its painfully slow moments, but everything else 
> > works. That said, Firefox had its painfully slow moments on many of 
> > the same sites back when I was still using the x86_64 beasty that 
> > builds TalkingArch as well, so I don't think much has changed. On the 
> > slowest sites, Chromium with ChromeVox seems to run much faster.
> > Imetumwa kutoka moyoni
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org

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