Hello, I've been reading about 'simulating' raspberry pi hardware on other devices, and I've heard about various different methods, from Microsoft Azure to the Raspberry Pi Desktop (https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ra ... i-desktop/).
What I'm after though is something different: because I'm thinking of switching to the Pi as my main computer, I need to verify the Pi will be powerful enough for my daily use cases (I need it to be capable of running these 2 apps smoothly: Obsidian:https://obsidian.md/ and Zotero:https://www.zotero.org/)
Problem is, it's hard to know whether everything will work as smoothly as I like before actually buying the Pi.
Precisely. If those packages are available for Linux on ARM just buy the Pi.
Emulation (or simulation if you prefer) is not going to give a trure picture of how things will run on real Pi hardware. Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac won't help either - that's x86 Debian with the RPiOS UI grafted on top so will run much faster than on real Pi hardware.
An emulated Pi may or may not run at accurate speeds - that depends on whether the developer of it though accruate performance was a requirement. I'm not entirely sure there is such a thing as a Pi emulator though.
I know nothing about Microsoft Azure so cannot comment but unless it emulates the Pi at the hardware level it is unlikely to give an accurate indication of actual Pi performance.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Sun May 26, 2024 11:38 pm