gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On 12/28/24 08:24, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:53:41PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On 28/12/2024 10:06, Andy Smith wrote: > >>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 08:26:26PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > >>>> When is that going to happen? Trying to maintain debian-arm stuff blind > >>>> is a > >>>> pita. I want to SEE whats available. > >>> I have never in my life felt the need to use synaptic. What am I > >>> missing out on? > >> Synaptic is a GUI frontend to apt. It's not really much different to > >> aptitude, except that it's maybe a bit more mouse-friendly. > > That much I know. I am wondering what its killer feature is that Gene > > wants to work so hard to make it run on a headless single board computer > > that one would think to be wholly unsuitable for running GUI apps. > > armbian in the full desktop version runs noticeably slower than it runs > on amd64 stuff, but its more than fast enough to run a full screen gui > for a 3d printer.
Surely that (the speed) is down to how fast the particular ARM or X86 system is. There's fast ARM systems and slow X86 ones (though I woiuld guess that the fastest X86 ones are faster than the fastest ARM ones). -- Chris Green ·
