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  • What OS for Zero WH?

    From F. W.@3:770/3 to All on Tue Mar 8 11:58:11 2022
    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    FW

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  • From F. W.@3:770/3 to All on Tue Mar 8 13:18:22 2022
    Am 08.03.2022 um 12:41 schrieb David Taylor:
    On 08/03/2022 10:58, F. W. wrote:
    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    FW

    Not with that OS, but Raspbian Lite (or whatever it's called now) works
    well. The capabilities are similar to the earlier Raspberry Pi cards,
    and the Zero 2 is a substantial increase in computer power being 4-core.


    Okay, thank you

    FW

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  • From David Taylor@3:770/3 to F. W. on Tue Mar 8 11:41:25 2022
    On 08/03/2022 10:58, F. W. wrote:
    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    FW

    Not with that OS, but Raspbian Lite (or whatever it's called now) works well. The capabilities are similar to the earlier Raspberry Pi cards, and the Zero 2 is a substantial increase in computer power being 4-core.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to David Taylor on Tue Mar 8 12:58:15 2022
    On 08/03/2022 11:41, David Taylor wrote:
    On 08/03/2022 10:58, F. W. wrote:
    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    FW

    Not with that OS, but Raspbian Lite (or whatever it's called now) works
    well. The capabilities are similar to the earlier Raspberry Pi cards,
    and the Zero 2 is a substantial increase in computer power being 4-core.


    I put raspian on my zero. works fine.
    Start with what works, experiment later


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    conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the
    windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) "

    Alan Sokal

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  • From alister@3:770/3 to F. W. on Tue Mar 8 19:09:57 2022
    On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 11:58:11 +0100, F. W. wrote:

    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    FW

    to re-iterate what others have said
    unless you have a specific purpose in mind start with the official
    RaspberryPi os

    libreELEC, OSMC & others are aimed at more specific purposes
    the perform those tasks better that the default but are not so good when
    it comes to tasks outside their desired target.





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  • From druck@3:770/3 to F. W. on Sun Mar 13 12:03:23 2022
    On 08/03/2022 10:58, F. W. wrote:
    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    I used to run LibreELEC on the first Pi 1B, and was very pleased with
    it's performance viewing photos and playing videos from my camera of the
    time (10 years ago), I even had it hooked up to a USB DVD player at one
    point. The Zero WH is a slightly faster than the 1B, so should work as
    well, but with the hassle of having to use mini HDMI and micro USB adaptors.

    ---druck

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  • From Chris Elvidge@3:770/3 to druck on Mon Mar 14 11:15:04 2022
    On 13/03/2022 12:03, druck wrote:
    On 08/03/2022 10:58, F. W. wrote:
    I got a Zero WH as a present. While I wait for my Mini-HDMI-Adapter,
    what OS do you use with this very small computer?

    I will try LibreELEC. Any experience?

    I used to run LibreELEC on the first Pi 1B, and was very pleased with
    it's performance viewing photos and playing videos from my camera of the
    time (10 years ago), I even had it hooked up to a USB DVD player at one point. The Zero WH is a slightly faster than the 1B, so should work as
    well, but with the hassle of having to use mini HDMI and micro USB
    adaptors.

    ---druck

    Good performance at what it is designed for, yes. But adding more/other software is sort of difficult.
    I got on better with OSMC. Easy to add web server, mail server etc.
    Of course, for general use Raspbian Lite (no X) works very well.

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    Chris Elvidge
    England

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  • From druck@3:770/3 to Chris Elvidge on Mon Mar 14 21:09:19 2022
    On 14/03/2022 11:15, Chris Elvidge wrote:
    I used to run LibreELEC on the first Pi 1B, and was very pleased with
    it's performance viewing photos and playing videos from my camera of
    the time (10 years ago), I even had it hooked up to a USB DVD player
    at one point.

    Good performance at what it is designed for, yes. But adding more/other software is sort of difficult.
    I got on better with OSMC.

    I did look at OSMC, its features sounded good, but I just could not get
    on with it's UI.

    Easy to add web server, mail server etc.
    Of course, for general use Raspbian Lite (no X) works very well.

    As soon as I moved to the Pi2 and later with multiple cores I ran full
    Raspbian on them. The Zero 2 (if you can get hold of it) is a bit faster
    than the Pi 2.

    ---druck

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