Re: [gentoo-user] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 1:29 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <
ceo.teo.en.ming@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or
> 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
>
> Good day from Singapore,
>
> I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch
> touch screen display in June 2021.
>
> Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120
>
>
https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-pi-4/p-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-8gb-latest
>
> Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price
SGD$147
>
>
https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rpi-4/p-raspberry-pi-7in-touch-screen-with-smartipi-case
>
> Do you think it is a good match?
>
> I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop
> computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use
> case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display.
> However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one
> with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display
> with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand
> vertically.
>
> Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8
> GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8
> GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is
> there a good 4K video editing software for Linux?
>
> I am looking forward to your reply.
>
> Thank you very much.

Hello,
   It's my guess that a Raspberry Pi is not a good platform for your video
editing and a 7" screen is like a large cell phone which would be insanely
difficult to do editing on in my opinion, so at the level of the hardware I
wouldn't personally be a consumer of this sort of system.

   As for Gentoo on a system like this it would likely, after lots of
optimization, give you great results but personally I wouldn't start there.
I'd use some flavor of Ubuntu to evaluate performance and then, if you're
not quite getting what you believe it best results then look at Gentoo.
However Gentoo compiling on a little machine like this would probably be a
24 hour per day proposition for a video editing box meaning all you would
ever be doing with Gentoo is building code. Remember that with Gentoo if
you don't keep it completely up to date then after a few months you start
to have dependency failures that take more time to fix than years left in
your life. For a Raspberry Pi you'll want some other big machine set up as
a cross compiler so you just load binary onto the little machine. If you
don't already have that hardware then you're looking at a lot more money.

   My input: buy a laptop.

HTH,
Mark

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