Re: Recommended Mini-PCs: ALL Windows and Mac, ZERO Linux

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 10:22:35 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

And you would probably have a superior experience. My understanding is
that if I had an ARM machine, a Linux distribution with full software
support would already be available to me. With Windows, _some_
applications might have been ported over to work natively, whereas most
would be running in emulation and not allowing me to benefit from ARM's
features.

It isn't meant to be a full laptop experience but the Raspberry Pi 5
running the Debian derived Raspberry Pi OS shows what is possible. It has
Chromium or Firefox for broswers, a modified LXDE DE and move importantly
for me, VS Code. It has Vim but not Gvim. I think that has to do with the
Gtk version.  People have put other distros on as well.