On 05/11/2020 21:46, Yes wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying the Pi 4 to use for web surfing and watching
> anime and YouTube videos.  I don't have any intentions to do video
> editing or other such productivity tasks.
>

I'm a bit confused by the other responses. I tested Raspbian desktop on
my Pi4 4GB just over a year ago and it wasn't utilising hardware
graphics acceleration in the Chrome ("Chromium"?) browser. HD video,
fullscreen, youtube, was unwatchable in Chrome. None of the other
browsers seemed better, I think Firefox was "experimental".

Sure, you could set it up to play video with something like KODI that
does use x264 hardware acceleration (maybe even x265), but the default
youtube browser experience was unwatchable.

Maybe things have improved in the last year, but I would confirm that is
true before going ahead. The problems did seem to be software/drivers
rather than hardware.

I now use my Pi 4 headless.

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