What's the state of the art with Raspberry Pi distributions now? Kinda got out of the loop for a bit and now that I moved to a new place I'm going to start tinkering again.
Is it still all shit except raspbian, or are there any other interesting ones?
is this the new desktop thread
I'd never looked before but I'm surprised RPis get on as well as they do with so little RAM. I expected they would be rocking ~512MB for what they do.
>>55386817
well, don't be surprised, a Pi is several orders of magnitude more powerful than a 1990 computer, same with smartphones. Tech is amazing, isn't it?
Also don't let people tell you the pi is a piece of perfection either, there ARE a lot of caveats to them. I can say anecdotically that using any Video-intensive stuff eventually ends in frustration (though I haven't used the Pi 3 -- I think that should solve a lot of its video problems).
Stuff like normal web browsing is almost impossible on a 512 meg pi as a whole too, for example.
I think that it really excels when you put it to the test with an specific application, domain or intent. I use one in an arcade machine I built, and I did a LED lightshow. As long as you don't need the GPU stuff (no GUI, no HD video) you're good.
>>55386773
just get raspian like everyone else
unless youre a man then install gentoo on it
Would a beaglebone black be better for image shit?
I wanted to use a Raspberry Pi + camera module + mini screen to make a scope for airshitting and that means that the image I see on the screen must be what the camera sees with near zero latency. I also want to draw shit on the image like custom crosshairs from a preloaded file and shit.
Think the Pi can handle that or am I asking too much?
