What do you do with your Raspbery Pi 4?

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I use my Raspberry Pi3 for piHole. Curious what do you do with your Raspberry Pi 4 for ? whether it can be used in place of a regular Desktop , for checking mails, watching youtube, Netflix, Prime, working on some Google stuff like Docs, Mail, Spreadsheets, etc ? whether 8GB is needed ?

bradley_taunt · Accepted Answer

Use the Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB model) as my main work desktop. Wrote up about it in detail recently as well[0][0]https://uglyduck.ca/my-pi-desktop/

leipert · Answer

I have multiple raspberry pi&rsquo;s running in the office. Two Zero Ws in Lamps, a raspberry pi 4 as a controller for our 3D printer (octoprint) and a raspberry pi 1 as a pihole.At home I am using one raspberry pi 4 as a pihole, sorting Mails with imapfilter and controlling our smart home with node-red.No desktop use, don&rsquo;t even have the GUI installed.

ksaj · Answer

I use mine as a regular desktop, and Lisp programming. It's the 4Gb version, and it does most of those things just fine. I haven't used Netflix or Prime, so I can't say anything about them. I can watch CBC Gem streams just fine, though, so I would expect it to be fine. It all boots up almost instantly, which is something that I love.It's the first pi that I've had that runs Youtube without stuttering, and it is plugged into two 4K monitors. I'm sure it would go down if I tried to do too many things at once, and especially if I gave Chrome enough tabs to eat up all the performance. But I haven't really had that problem so far, like I did (constantly) with the Raspberry Pi 3. So I'm pretty happy with how it is working out for the standard usage things.

giantg2 · Answer

I think you should be fine with 4GB. Only thing I would wonder about is if you're streaming 4K how the Pi4 would handle that. I think it would be ok, but I'm not sure.I also run a Pi-Hole. I use a Pi Zero for that.

p0d · Answer

Off-site backup to my garden shed i.e. shed retrieves house data over wifi.The pi4 lives in a plastic box with an encrypted usb drive attached.Just realise I didn't read question well ;-)

dchuk · Answer

(Both docker based) Plex/Medusa/radarr torrent media server, and pi hole for my local network. Works like a damn champ for both purposes, streams perfectly to the Apple TV&rsquo;s in the house and works great for remote streaming too. Pi hole is amazing, set and really forget while upgrading your whole internet experience.Next project might be a network time machine server, might use a second pi for that though

liamwestray · Answer

It works pretty well with Manjaro ARM for light desktop (what you&rsquo;ve described) use with the 4gb version.The biggest drawback is the sd-card speed. I&rsquo;m waiting for an SBC with emmc to come out later this year to replace my pi4.

lukaszkups · Answer

Retro Pie. Playing NES games with my 5yo kid :)

d--b · Answer

I thought running Netflix didnt work on pi because it needs some kind of DRM module that doesnt run on ARM. Is that incorrect?

What do you do with your Raspbery Pi 4?

I use my Raspberry Pi3 for piHole. Curious what do you do with your Raspberry Pi 4 for ? whether it can be used in place of a regular Desktop , for checking mails, watching youtube, Netflix, Prime, working on some Google stuff like Docs, Mail, Spreadsheets, etc ? whether 8GB is needed ?

Use the Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB model) as my main work desktop. Wrote up about it in detail recently as well[0]
[0]https://uglyduck.ca/my-pi-desktop/

I think you should be fine with 4GB. Only thing I would wonder about is if you're streaming 4K how the Pi4 would handle that. I think it would be ok, but I'm not sure.
I also run a Pi-Hole. I use a Pi Zero for that.

Off-site backup to my garden shed i.e. shed retrieves house data over wifi.
The pi4 lives in a plastic box with an encrypted usb drive attached.
Just realise I didn't read question well ;-)

It works pretty well with Manjaro ARM for light desktop (what you’ve described) use with the 4gb version.
The biggest drawback is the sd-card speed. I’m waiting for an SBC with emmc to come out later this year to replace my pi4.

Retro Pie. Playing NES games with my 5yo kid :)

I thought running Netflix didnt work on pi because it needs some kind of DRM module that doesnt run on ARM. Is that incorrect?