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Last month I put together my Raspberry Pi desktop and tried using it as general purpose computer. Previously I was using my "long in the tooth" Lenovo G480 as main computer. Now what's changed with Raspberry Pi? Actually not much really. For couple of weeks I was using older Raspbian and it was quite unfulfilling. For video playback there was only OMX Player which did not do windowed playback. Web browsing was bit slower than I liked. And system was not fast. It lagged somewhat. Then I got latest Raspbian Stretch downloaded. And the difference was between night and day. The desktop is faster. Web browsing is smoother. VLC is provided. Full HD video playback is working. Office is working fine as well. Now, I know the 1GB RAM is actually not a lot. In fact on the Lenovo, with even 2GB RAM, things get creepy crawly after opening 2-3 tabs. So here I'm restricting myself to only 1-2 tabs. And overall it's working fine. One thing that did not work out was NTFS partition...

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro     Released 2019, March     186g, 8.1mm thickness     Android 9.0; MIUI 10     128GB storage, microSD card slot Hybrid SIM slot     6.3" 1080x2340 pixels     48MP 2160p     4/6GB RAM     Snapdragon 675     4000mAh Li-Po Network Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE Launch Announced 2019, February Status Available. Released 2019, March Body Dimensions 159.2 x 75.2 x 8.1 mm (6.27 x 2.96 x 0.32 in) Weight 186 g (6.56 oz) Build Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 5) SIM Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) Display Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors Size 6.3 inches, 97.4 cm2 (~81.4% screen-to-body ratio) Resolution 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~409 ppi density) Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 5 Platform OS Android 9.0 (Pie); MIUI 10 Chipset Qualcomm SDM675 Snapdragon 675 (11 nm) CPU Octa-core (2x2.0 GHz Kryo 460 Gold & 6x1.7 GHz Kryo 460 Silver) GPU Adreno 612 Memory Card slot microSD, up to 256 GB (uses shared SIM slot) Int...