Has anybody checked out the Raspberry Pi 400 yet?

At The Gates · 31 Dec 2020 at 17:04

Does this ship with PIXEL and Chromium on the SD Card image? My daughters school homework is now all online via Google Classroom and IXL so this would make a great little device for her to do that and learn more about computers.

jrwagh333 · 31 Dec 2020 at 17:08

At The Gates said:
Does this ship with PIXEL and Chromium on the SD Card image? My daughters school homework is now all online via Google Classroom and IXL so this would make a great little device for her to do that and learn more about computers.

IXL... Awful

ZXSpectrum · 7 Jan 2021 at 14:57

I thought about grabbing one to use with a 11-15" laptop screen for my 3D Printer with Octoprint. Think i am just going to grab another 3B and run it via the web interface.

I can understand the draw for someone who wants an all in one unit that takes up very little room.

delta0 · 21 Feb 2021 at 11:26

I would have gone for this if it had 8GB and if it was easy to put an SSD inside. Instead I went for the 4 with an Argon One m2 case.

jrwagh333 · 22 Mar 2021 at 13:44

delta0 said:
I would have gone for this if it had 8GB and if it was easy to put an SSD inside. Instead I went for the 4 with an Argon One m2 case.

So odd to me why they don't give the option to add an m.2 SATA drive. There is so much space inside the 400

warren_1979 · 7 Aug 2021 at 08:14

What's the best os excluding raspbian? Mate? Budgie? I'm looking for a nice desktop experience. I'll be using an SSD if possible.

gpuerrilla · 7 Aug 2021 at 08:18

@eagleuk did you get one in the end mate?

jrwagh333 · 7 Aug 2021 at 14:15

warren_1979 said:
What's the best os excluding raspbian? Mate? Budgie? I'm looking for a nice desktop experience. I'll be using an SSD if possible.

I've only every checked out RaspberryPi OS and Ubuntu... Default Ubuntu was sluggish as hell on my overclocked Pi4. Probably down to GNOME more than anything.

gpuerrilla · 7 Aug 2021 at 14:25

Cant help much. I always use CLI as I only have original pi's (2) and a cluster of pi2's (4).

Quartz · 7 Aug 2021 at 15:07

Those interested in the Pi should check out Jeff Geerling on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling/videos

jrwagh333 · 7 Aug 2021 at 17:50

Quartz said:
Those interested in the Pi should check out Jeff Geerling on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling/videos

Been watching him for a while, very interesting

TangoEchoAlpha · 8 Aug 2021 at 18:24

jrwagh333 said:
I've only every checked out RaspberryPi OS and Ubuntu... Default Ubuntu was sluggish as hell on my overclocked Pi4. Probably down to GNOME more than anything.

Gnome of a MicroSD card is absolute hell. I put Ubuntu on a SSD and it became much more usable.

If you want to try other flavours of Ubuntu on a Pi, the best thing to do is to put Ubuntu Server on there and then run desktopify to convert it to your Ubuntu flavour of choice, Xbuntu, Lbuntu etc.

warren_1979 said:
What's the best os excluding raspbian? Mate? Budgie? I'm looking for a nice desktop experience. I'll be using an SSD if possible.

Have a look at Twister OS, really pretty and runs nicely off an SSD.