...unlike the Raspberry Pi. About a year ago I installed a Raspberry Pi 4B+ behind my 40" monitor, with Kodi + some DLNA stuff on it. It almost works, but it has hard fails in enough important areas that I've given up on it.
- No sleep / standby mode (lowest power is 'idle')
- No Wake On Lan, so if you power it off completely, you have to cycle the power on the power supply (not easy, since mine is behind the "TV")
- Can't run Windows apps (eg the amazing MusicBee) because it's ARM
- Shitty disk support (stuck with SD card or USB)
I gave an old ThinkPad T430 to my 9 year old nephews about a year ago, and they've completely trashed it: busted screen hinges, broken backlight and cracked case. I'm gonna remove the faulty screen and permanently hook it up to the TV as a "headless laptop" (https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/jt2p8j/i_see_your...). Because guess what? Linux runs boringly well on it. Also: built-in keyboard, low-power standby mode, trackpad, proper SSD and more useful ports than the Pi.
- No sleep / standby mode (lowest power is 'idle')
- No Wake On Lan, so if you power it off completely, you have to cycle the power on the power supply (not easy, since mine is behind the "TV")
- Chromium crashes on YouTube (https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=323640)
- Firefox ESR doesn't play sound on most YouTube videos (https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/109185/some-...)
- Can't run Windows apps (eg the amazing MusicBee) because it's ARM
- Shitty disk support (stuck with SD card or USB)
I gave an old ThinkPad T430 to my 9 year old nephews about a year ago, and they've completely trashed it: busted screen hinges, broken backlight and cracked case. I'm gonna remove the faulty screen and permanently hook it up to the TV as a "headless laptop" (https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/jt2p8j/i_see_your...). Because guess what? Linux runs boringly well on it. Also: built-in keyboard, low-power standby mode, trackpad, proper SSD and more useful ports than the Pi.