I found that using vim on the command line was fine, so in theory it is fine for programming, but as soon as I launched LXDE it just hammers the processor. But this isn't the case in the least AFAIK. That would be one thing that would make it unusable. If this would be the case then, for example, keystrokes would appear with a noticeable delay, which in a normal editor wouldn't be the case (maybe in a open office, but not in a simple text editor). Mahjongg wrote:His comment its "unusable for programming" strikes me as odd. Have you found Dom's video of Midori for some comparison? Many people are getting along absolutely fine with programming on it. Both languages that are fine to use from either the command line or from a terminal window in LXDE. Weird, must be something wrong with your Pi if you think it unsuitable for programming. It seems the Raspberry Pi is fine to use for projects, as you would an arduino, but it is utterly pointless as a device you directly use to teach programming on unless you only want to use it from the command line. I would rather have paid twice or three times as much for the Pi if the spec was equivalent to a netbook. I realise the spec is low, the price is cheap, but I've gone out and spent a fair bit more on other bits to plug into it. My intention was for this to be used to teach programming, and also a computer just for general browsing, but it is just far too slow and unresponsive for either. Lukearmstrong wrote:I'll try a few things, but given the responses I am not confident it will make much difference. Wireless Network Adapter (not working due to lack of driver, but that isn't important at the moment as I am using Ethernet whilst setting it up) Wireless Keyboard/Mouse (single usb adapter for both, working well) There has to be something wrong with my setup, I can't understand how this can be used to play Quake 3 at a reasonable framerate when I am struggling to use a web browser.Īnyone got any advice for working out what the problem could be? Could it be because my SD card is too big? I only bought it because it was on offer. Running "sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade -y" took nearly an hour to install 35mb of updates it downloaded the files fairly quickly, just took a ridiculous amount of time to update. I tried Chromium, and that is even worse, every page it tries to load it is convinced there is a problem and shows the "Kill pages" dialogue, which then disappears when the page starts loading. I eventually got Midori to re-open again, and closed the tabs. Using Midori is so slow, it crashed once with about 6 tabs open, and it kept crashing when trying to re-open Midori. It's fairly quick to boot up, fairly quick to load LXDE, but once I am in LXDE the CPU graph at the bottom right is at 100% nearly all of the time. I followed the guide on the wiki, installed the recommended Debian distro from the downloads page, used gparted from my ubuntu machine to resize the partitions to make full use of the SD card. It is so slow it is unusable, I can't understand how this can be used to play Quake 3, I must have done something wrong, or have some kind of problem. I've finally got around to setting up my Raspberry Pi.
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