Subj : Re: what best for low power use the rpi or eles
To   : Ultra Magnus
From : N2QFD
Date : Wed Feb 07 2024 09:46:24

Hi, 
  Just from my experience here I've not tried to use the Pi's for a proper desktop environment. I've read they will get you by but just lack in that regard. Here I use them for their low power consumption but dedicated to single tasks. My BBS is on a Pi3B+ another is driving my Pi-Star Ham radio hot spot. So it's handling smiplex radio transmittion and encode/decode of VoIP data to/from the Brandmeister network for DMR radio neatly. I have a Banana Pi, they are billed as clones but really are just work-a-like machines with different BIOS routines that kept me from using them to drive some projects but again make a good server unit for the household. The daily driver here is actually an old minitower An HP 8300 ultra small slim business computer with Linux Mint. That utilizes an external power supply like a notebook but this is not running 24/7 like the RPi/BPi units. 
  So, hopefully that lends to the pool of decision making for you.
Hope you find something that works for you. 

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