Mayayana  wrote:
> "Ottavio Caruso"  wrote
>
> | My current Thinkpad is dying and I was wondering if the Raspberry Pi 4-B
> | 8GB would be a half-decent laptop replacement, obviously with the
> | addition of a portable monitor (suggestions?) and an external drive.
> |
>
>    I find it perfectly usable running it through a TV
> screen with wireless keyboard/mouse on a tray,
> while I sit on the sofa. Doing the same with a monitor
> would work just as well. Firefox and Thunderbird seem
> to work fine.
>
>    The biggest issue to my mind is that it's an ARM
> CPU. That means any other common software probably
> won't work. Word processing? OK. But printing? I
> don't know. Image editing? I doubt it. ARM is mostly
> used for limited service-type devices like phones and
> tablets.

FWIW, support for printing under CUPS seems quite good
with Buster. The OP wants to use NetBSD.

Getting GUI-based ports running under FreeBSD has been
a hassle. I suspect NetBSD will be similar. CUPS requires
a browser to administer, maybe epiphany would suffice.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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