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Posted: 06:32pm
15 Sep 2025
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stanleyella
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I had a rpi 400 using twister os and the keyboard seemed faulty, ie different keys the same. reported by others when I searched.
anyway I dug it out over the weekend and installed bookworm 64bit os and the keyboard works ok. Youtube playback is much better, over wifi. Just got to learn Linux  
 
Posted: 08:30pm
15 Sep 2025
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hitsware2
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Depending on what you want to do ,
not that much Linux needed .
I would also try :
32bit vs 64bit Bookworm
Bullseye OS
Fyde OS
Different browsers ( Chromium , Firefox , Falkon , et . al . )
The beauty of the RPi is the ease of tweeking .
 
Posted: 11:04pm
15 Sep 2025
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stanleyella
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The beauty of the RPi is the ease of tweeking .
not easy now to edit config.txt.
have rpi 1,2,3,400.
this didn't work / fill screen .no hdmi sound on first tv but fine on another.
impressed with youtube play back over wi-fi. no dropped frames. vlc video playback from usb fine. big difference to twister os
 
Posted: 08:51am
16 Sep 2025
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Mixtel90
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I don't know if it's still true, but at one time I seem to remember seeing that only Raspberry Pi's own OS could use the GPU's hardware acceleration. That gave it a clear lead on graphic-intensive stuff.
 
Posted: 10:56am
16 Sep 2025
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PhenixRising
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  Mixtel90 said  I don't know if it's still true, but at one time I seem to remember seeing that only Raspberry Pi's own OS could use the GPU's hardware acceleration. That gave it a clear lead on graphic-intensive stuff.


I don't know much about this but coincidentally, I was just looking at Raylib which appears to be supported by SmallBASIC which is cross-platform.
 
Posted: 12:57pm
16 Sep 2025
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Mixtel90
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I dunno. I have a couple of Pi thingies hanging about but they haven't even been switched on in the last year. The most recent is a 3B that someone gave me. TBH I would only use the Pi OS anyway as I need all the current documentation I can get nowadays. lol
 
Posted: 02:06pm
16 Sep 2025
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hitsware2
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  stanleyella said  
not easy now to edit config.txt.


sudo raspi-config
 
Posted: 02:15pm
16 Sep 2025
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hitsware2
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Pi os does seem to work best overall .
The latest uses Wayland ( ?? ) which messes up some
of my use .... ( So I use Bullseye for those  )
With os ' s on thumb drives it ' s an easy switch .
 
Posted: 09:37pm
16 Sep 2025
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stanleyella
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  hitsware2 said  
  stanleyella said  
not easy now to edit config.txt.


sudo raspi-config

sudo nano config.txt is now config.sys. not like bullseye
 
Posted: 09:59pm
16 Sep 2025
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hitsware2
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  stanleyella said  
  hitsware2 said  
  stanleyella said  
not easy now to edit config.txt.


sudo raspi-config

sudo nano config.txt is now config.sys. not like bullseye

This won't do what you want ?
 
Posted: 06:33am
17 Sep 2025
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Mixtel90
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I always used sudo raspi-config from when I first discovered it. It's definitely the easiest way to set things up. :)  I'm a nano fan too, but only when it's needed. :)
 


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