Re: [gentoo-user] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021

[Kusoneko]

On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:29:12PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
>Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or
>10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
>
>Good day from Singapore,
>
>I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch
>touch screen display in June 2021.
>
>Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120
>
>https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-pi-4/p-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-8gb-latest
>
>Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price SGD$147
>
>https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rpi-4/p-raspberry-pi-7in-touch-screen-with-smartipi-case
>
>Do you think it is a good match?
>
>I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop
>computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use
>case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display.
>However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one
>with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display
>with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand
>vertically.
>
>Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8
>GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8
>GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is
>there a good 4K video editing software for Linux?
>
>I am looking forward to your reply.
>
>Thank you very much.
>

Hello,

I can't say anything about the Raspberry Pi part, as I don't have one
and have never used one, however, I believe every CPU architectures are
supported on Gentoo. However, you might need a keyboard to properly set
it up until you have touchscreen support and a virtual keyboard, and
likely to help with rescuing the OS if for some reason something breaks.
Maintaining a Gentoo distro on a CPU architecture that isn't x86_64/amd64
might also be quite the task, as I'm not quite sure how used other
architectures are. As for 4K video editing software, as I am not a video
editor at all, I cannot tell you what the video editing software options
are on Linux as a whole. What I can tell you however is that if you
don't plan on putting in some effort and time to make Gentoo to your
taste and all, using Gentoo might be a bad idea, as it is a distribution
based on the concept of building the OS you want. Updates also require
recompiling all the software that is updated, and if you don't update
regularly enough (let's say at least monthly), you might end up like one
of the many other people who end up with an unupdatable system that end
up on this mailing list. If you are seeking an easy to use and easy to
maintain distribution for your Raspberry Pi, you might be better off
looking into one of the distributions based around Pis such as Raspbian.
I can't however promise that any of them will be good distributions for
your use case as, like I said, I have no Raspberry Pis and therefore
haven't tried doing anything with one.

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