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echo: rberrypi
to: D.M. PROCIDA
from: DELOPTES
date: 2020-11-27 22:40:00
subject: Re: Recommendations for P

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D.M. Procida wrote:

> Are there easily-installed alternatives? I don't want a wholesale
> replacement of Raspberry Pi OS, because I'm work on and with software in
> the Raspberry Pi ecosystem and need components to work in the same way.

Yeah, the DE in general - one is too heavy, another to simple, the third one
too fragile ...

When KDE released 4.0 I stayed on 3.5 and joined the community that mutated
out of it and calls it TDE. AFAIK it supports arm on couple of systems

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Category:Documentation#Installing_from_a_Packag
e_Manager

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Raspbian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instru
ctions

Advantage is stability and memory/cpu footprint, disadvantages - I let them
for you. I am actually thinking of replacing the desktop pc fully with the
RPI 4 with TDE on top.

I am not sure if Raspbian was the official RPI OS, or something else though.

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