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| Posted: 06:32pm 15 Sep 2025 |
I had a rpi 400 using twister os and the keyboard seemed faulty, ie different keys the same. reported by others when I searched.
anyway I dug it out over the weekend and installed bookworm 64bit os and the keyboard works ok. Youtube playback is much better, over wifi. Just got to learn Linux
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| Posted: 08:30pm 15 Sep 2025 |
Depending on what you want to do ,
not that much Linux needed .
I would also try :
32bit vs 64bit Bookworm
Bullseye OS
Fyde OS
Different browsers ( Chromium , Firefox , Falkon , et . al . )
The beauty of the RPi is the ease of tweeking .
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| Posted: 11:04pm 15 Sep 2025 |
The beauty of the RPi is the ease of tweeking .
not easy now to edit config.txt.
have rpi 1,2,3,400.
this didn't work / fill screen .no hdmi sound on first tv but fine on another.
impressed with youtube play back over wi-fi. no dropped frames. vlc video playback from usb fine. big difference to twister os
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| Posted: 08:51am 16 Sep 2025 |
I don't know if it's still true, but at one time I seem to remember seeing that only Raspberry Pi's own OS could use the GPU's hardware acceleration. That gave it a clear lead on graphic-intensive stuff.
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| Posted: 10:56am 16 Sep 2025 |
I don't know much about this but coincidentally, I was just looking at Raylib which appears to be supported by SmallBASIC which is cross-platform.
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| Posted: 12:57pm 16 Sep 2025 |
I dunno. I have a couple of Pi thingies hanging about but they haven't even been switched on in the last year. The most recent is a 3B that someone gave me. TBH I would only use the Pi OS anyway as I need all the current documentation I can get nowadays. lol
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| Posted: 02:06pm 16 Sep 2025 |
sudo raspi-config
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| Posted: 02:15pm 16 Sep 2025 |
Pi os does seem to work best overall .
The latest uses Wayland ( ?? ) which messes up some
of my use .... ( So I use Bullseye for those )
With os ' s on thumb drives it ' s an easy switch .
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| Posted: 09:37pm 16 Sep 2025 |
sudo nano config.txt is now config.sys. not like bullseye
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| Posted: 09:59pm 16 Sep 2025 |
This won't do what you want ?
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| Posted: 06:33am 17 Sep 2025 |
I always used sudo raspi-config from when I first discovered it. It's definitely the easiest way to set things up. :) I'm a nano fan too, but only when it's needed. :)
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| Posted: 02:16pm 17 Sep 2025 |
Thanks. It's been in a box for years. I forgot how it's setup.
editing config-txt which it says is in config.sys do not alter. Read the sd card or hdd in windows pc and edit it in notepad and save.Hdmi was not correct on first tv with no sound but another tv worked with the same settings.
Dunno why keyboard gave false keys, several keys gave "3" using Twister OS, it was ok for a year. No problems with Radpian.. so far.