Do you use a Raspberry Pi?

[snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ]

All the parts have arrived for a full Pi 4 desktop, except for the official keyboard.

What Operating System should I put on the MicroSD?

[iceman1980]

Messaggio originale di snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ:

All the parts have arrived for a full Pi 4 desktop, except for the official keyboard.

What Operating System should I put on the MicroSD?

I used Raspbian Lite. You can run Ubuntu as another option but it's not officially supported ARMArch is also another option I'm tempted to go to ARM Arch there is also a lightweight version of "Raspbian" called DietPI I've used both DietpI and Raspbian Lite / Normal.

Bare in mind DietPI lacks certain features. I use systemd-networkd as my network provider as it's more flexible than iproute2. Because I use VLANs, this is my preferred method of networking.

[Electric Cupcake]

Just the default Raspian OS.

I keep meaning to try RetroPie, but that would require getting another SD card or repartitioning this one and setting up an etcher dfualboot.

[[N]ebsun]

Depends on what you want to do with it - if you have nothing specific in mind, then raspberry pi os (previously "raspbian") is a good starting point.

[snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ]

Messaggio originale di Nebsun:

Depends on what you want to do with it - if you have nothing specific in mind, then raspberry pi os (previously "raspbian") is a good starting point.

Media center, got a projector that should work with it too.

[_I_]

put noobs on the sd card, and use that to install the os of your choice

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS/images/NOOBS-2021-03-25/NOOBS_v3_6_0.zip

[snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ]

Messaggio originale di _I_:

put noobs on the sd card, and use that to install the os of your choice

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS/images/NOOBS-2021-03-25/NOOBS_v3_6_0.zip

I've heard of this in Youtube videos, but they didn't say much about it.

edit- 128 gigabyte card, SDXC fix tool needed to do this via Windows 10

[_I_]

win10 is a heavy os for a pi
use raspbian or something much lighter

[BloodShed]

Messaggio originale di snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ:

Messaggio originale di Nebsun:

Depends on what you want to do with it - if you have nothing specific in mind, then raspberry pi os (previously "raspbian") is a good starting point.

Media center, got a projector that should work with it too.

I would recommend LibreElec (Kodi media center) for media center use
https://libreelec.tv/


I have a few Raspberry Pi 3B+ media centers around the house with one that shares all video via samba and runs an SQL server to sync watch status and media info.

[オナニー]

I tried to use it to smartify a dumb TV and even a streaming console using steamlink but it keeps disconnecting from steamlink thinking that steam on my host pc is inactive. I just dont bother with it anymore.

[snlᴉʇnɐNɔᴉɯsoƆ]

I'll give Ubuntu Mate a shot. Seems like NOOBS might not be compatible.

[Autumn_]

I did have a Pi 3, but it was removed from the TV I had on it (to make it 'smarter'), and then lost, I'm still wondering where it went.

I did a few things with it.
Kodi Media Center, for 'smartifying' the TV, worked quite well, although could be somewhat slow at times, especially with high quality content being played, at least that was my experience.

And I also used Retropie on it, that worked quite nicely, alas I seemed it to be somewhat pointless because I had my computer in the same place, and could just run an emulator on that.

That's the only two I really have experience with, so I can't help to much.
But anything is decent, and it's fun to mess around with.


Also, not to derail this thread, but is somewhat on topic, if I were able to find my Pi again, I would want to try turn it into a NAS, does anybody have thoughts or recommendations for that?
Worth it? With some old HDDs I have laying around? Or would a proper hardware be better?
I'm not looking for anything special, just another compact-ish device to store some files that so barely use, to keep them off my computers drives.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Messaggio originale di Autumn_:

I did have a Pi 3, but it was removed from the TV I had on it (to make it 'smarter'), and then lost, I'm still wondering where it went.

I did a few things with it.
Kodi Media Center, for 'smartifying' the TV, worked quite well, although could be somewhat slow at times, especially with high quality content being played, at least that was my experience.

And I also used Retropie on it, that worked quite nicely, alas I seemed it to be somewhat pointless because I had my computer in the same place, and could just run an emulator on that.

That's the only two I really have experience with, so I can't help to much.
But anything is decent, and it's fun to mess around with.


Also, not to derail this thread, but is somewhat on topic, if I were able to find my Pi again, I would want to try turn it into a NAS, does anybody have thoughts or recommendations for that?
Worth it? With some old HDDs I have laying around? Or would a proper hardware be better?
I'm not looking for anything special, just another compact-ish device to store some files that so barely use, to keep them off my computers drives.

You could easily do that with a smartphone you no longer use, WiFi FTP Server on Android is what i use for that purpose or just buy a 250GB-500GB external drive, they tend to be cheap these days. Or since you have drives laying around you could just get an adapter to allow them to be used externally.

If your Pi was a P4 then using it as a NAS would work decently, but for a P3 or below i probably wouldnt bother with it.

The other option is to simply get a USB thumb drive, they are extremely cheap these days for 128GB and the like.

[Autumn_]

Messaggio originale di ☥ - CJ -:

Messaggio originale di Autumn_:

I did have a Pi 3, but it was removed from the TV I had on it (to make it 'smarter'), and then lost, I'm still wondering where it went.

I did a few things with it.
Kodi Media Center, for 'smartifying' the TV, worked quite well, although could be somewhat slow at times, especially with high quality content being played, at least that was my experience.

And I also used Retropie on it, that worked quite nicely, alas I seemed it to be somewhat pointless because I had my computer in the same place, and could just run an emulator on that.

That's the only two I really have experience with, so I can't help to much.
But anything is decent, and it's fun to mess around with.


Also, not to derail this thread, but is somewhat on topic, if I were able to find my Pi again, I would want to try turn it into a NAS, does anybody have thoughts or recommendations for that?
Worth it? With some old HDDs I have laying around? Or would a proper hardware be better?
I'm not looking for anything special, just another compact-ish device to store some files that so barely use, to keep them off my computers drives.

You could easily do that with a smartphone you no longer use, WiFi FTP Server on Android is what i use for that purpose or just buy a 250GB-500GB external drive, they tend to be cheap these days. Or since you have drives laying around you could just get an adapter to allow them to be used externally.

If your Pi was a P4 then using it as a NAS would work decently, but for a P3 or below i probably wouldnt bother with it.

The other option is to simply get a USB thumb drive, they are extremely cheap these days for 128GB and the like.

Don't really have a spare phone I could use for that, and I wouldn't want to do that anyway.
I don't want external drives, I want a NAS, so the rest of the people on my network can access it.

What's the difference between Pi 3 and Pi 4 when it comes to something like a NAS?
I wouldn't have thought that much.

I don't like USB drives. They get lost, they're slower, and aren't good for hard storage. Since data on them degrades overtime. I generally avoid storing important files on them, unless it's to transfer to someone else's (outside of my house) computer.

[Wheelie Gamer]

i used noobs for my past three different pis,-its very handy,i rehomed my other two far more higher spec pis but i have a raspberry pi zero w board in a retroflag GPi case, case not designed for any other pi unfortunately, but i wanted a hand held,batteries last...1 hour and half of heavy use i think? i usually have it hooked up to electric i just need the battery function for when the world is back to normality and im at stressful hospital appointments again,and its actually a very good setup with the zero and raspbian.

[BloodShed]

Messaggio originale di Autumn_:

What's the difference between Pi 3 and Pi 4 when it comes to something like a NAS?
I wouldn't have thought that much.

One of the main differences with the Pi4 is unconstrained Gigabit Ethernet (on Pi3 it went through the USB controller slowing it down).

Messaggio originale di Autumn_:

I don't like USB drives. They get lost, they're slower, and aren't good for hard storage. Since data on them degrades overtime. I generally avoid storing important files on them, unless it's to transfer to someone else's (outside of my house) computer.

I've never had problems with USB drives, let alone degradation.

My Pi3B+ Media Center had a 2TB USB drive for about 2years and it never failed.