Pi 4 now powerful enough to design on?

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With the new, more powerful Raspberry Pi 4 units, are these machines now powerful enough to be used as the system to program on, and not just as a headless playback unit? Thoughts?
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Depends on the size of the project.
For small projects I'd say yes.
One big limitation with the vanilla image is the lack of a window manager, so you can't move modal windows around.
This can be easily solved though by installing the official Debian package in a standard image with Xorg.
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markzvo
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I was also considering that - putting a full Linux OS on the device (probably Ubuntu), and adding M.2 storage.

I was looking at this M.2 SSD drive:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P22T3VD

With this adapter:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MHYWJCP

Should provide 10X the storage speed at almost the same price for a good microSD card of that size (120 GB) at the same price (in the US)!
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