Is is worth it? I'm planning to use it as a web browsing machine (shitposting machine), maybe watching a couple of videos on youtube and just experiment with the little thing.
Is there any other better alternative?
Keep in mind that I don't have that much experience with Linux.
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do it
it has a fuckload of uses and its good at all of em
The rpi2 was sufficient for that, this will be too.
>Is there any other better alternative?
Yes. Orange PI PC edition. 1/2 the price for more cores and faster clock speed.
Get an ODROID-C2 instead.
It's faster, especially with eMMC flash.
>Orange PI PC edition
only 1 GiB of RAM.
What about the community behind it?
>only 1 GiB of RAM.
shit for brains, and how much has RasPi 3 have?
post less.
Is it the cheapest/best solution for a tv mediacenter/emulator?
The ODROID-C2 has 2 GiB of RAM.
Not sure to be honest, I don't have mine yet.
Heard good things tho.
There's an official Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image,
and an unoffiical Debian Jessie one
The RPi isn't quite going to have the best possible specs for the price, but it's definitely going to have the best support and it's still really cheap. Just go for it. I have one of them mounted next to my router and it makes for a great seedbox with web UI.
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Also thought I should add that if you don't have much experience, you *will* have problems when you first start learning it, and you will be grateful for the RPi's huge amount of support when you do (it also means you'll have fewer problems to begin with).
"it" being Linux, ofc
>ODROID-C2
I said Raspi3, shithead. Can't you fucking read?
Anyway, abandoning this shit thread.
NO NO NO!
Dont buy it for browsing the performance is fucking shit just trus me
Media acceleration worked on android only. Lacks kernel devs and the community is much smaller sadly.
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
It's still prolly faster than my Athlon 64 3400.
Die.
>tfw you get 3 of them for free from school
That will give you autism OP.
I run freebsd on it it's pretty neat
Hope to run pf for my router
I've heard inbrowser youtube playback sucks on pi 3 because it doesn't support hardware acceleration, so anything past 360p is a laggy mess. Is the Odroid C2 any better? I just want something that can run basic linux programs, and let me shitpost with maybe 15 tabs open, and can play 1080p video smoothly.
I have one.
I don't use it at all. It's sitting in my desk draw and I can't be fucked to think of a use for it, let alone make that thought a reality.
Woops forgot to read.
Olinuxono has more freedums, get a LIME 2
Hit or miss on H265 iirc.
Not too popular quite yet but it's been gaining steam.
i believe there is a way to force youtube to serve h264 streams rather than vpx, which rpi does have hardware acceleration for
i have it as a simple home/plex server. I am also able to use the hardware acceleration for video encoding on ffmpeg. Solid purchase, but the 100MB ethernet is really limiting, so I may be looking to upgrade in the next several months
is it worth it? i rely on these things
server/desktop
they're beautiful little objects
>Keep in mind that I don't have that much experience with Linux.
Put windows on it then.
>web browsing machine (shitposting machine), maybe watching a couple of videos on youtube
The two things it's literally terrible for
web pages are way too heavy for it to be enjoyable unless maybe you can go noscript. YouTube videos are unwatchable if it can't use hardware accel
WDTV is still good for media playing on TV (not emu) as long as you avoid H265, which no players really exist for yet
>and let me shitpost with maybe 15 tabs open, and can play 1080p video smoothly
No SBC can manage this reliably or usably.
It sounds like you are asking for almost nothing, the reality is you need a laptop for that or an ARM device which has full access to hardware acceleration from the ground up e.g NONE of the ones that run Linux. Might be able to manage it with a windows stick
Also is there any way to power normal monitor with battery, stick there pi and make some retardet tablet?
no
rpi don't have enough power for everyday browsing without getting enraged over lags and performance in general, even with lightweight tiling wm i would never use it on daily basis.
although
>experiment
is what this thing is made for. gpio ports ensure fun, it's like having microcontroller with built-in programmer device that can be reprogrammed on the fly in high-level lanugage (even bash scripts). cool shit.
>Is there any other better alternative?
almost every other arm board is better
>rpi don't have enough power for everyday browsing
tfw rpi is more powerful than the laptop I replaced last year