I’ve found that my Pi 400’s built in web browser is almost unusable with bloaty script-heavy sites, so I’m wondering if the Pi 5 or 500+ is any better. There would be an NVMe SSD present if that helps.

If someone has this setup, could they take a look at homedepot.com ? That’s a very slow and obnoxious site that I use sometimes, as I do buy some from there when I can’t avoid it. I’m ok if it’s a bit sluggish but my Pi 400 was near incapable of navitation or loading the page in a reasonable amount of waiting.

Thanks!

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    In general it’s fine but I can take a look at that for you. On one card I use fedora 43 (custom upstream cherry picks for out of tree hw) and on another, I use opensuse tumbleweed. I’ll check in with both as part of tonights upgrades

    • solrize@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Thanks, I appreciate it. The 400’s built in browser was unusable and I never got around to trying Firefox on it. It didn’t occur to me to try another OS distro. I just used Raspian (what the box came with) and I’ll presumably keep doing so. But the 500’s faster cpu, more ram, and SSD, should all help.

      A reddit post I saw suggested Firefox was slowed down due to a ton of small disc writes to the SD card. Maybe it’s better with the SSD.

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        no prob! this is kind of embarrassing, but I’m not sure if that site is available outside of the US

        Might need to use a VPN to access so may kind of skew my perception of how it performs, but I’ll try to let everything load before i poke around it

          • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            I’m really sorry, but I’m unable to get through to this website on the Pi 5 using ProtonVPN. I’m still getting that access denied dialog.

            I’m able to get through on my work system via the corp VPN, I’m not sure why. I can see what you mean though, that website is awful even on an over-provisioned workstation.

            I don’t suppose you have a similar site to test against? if it’s any consolation, I’m able to load up and navigate absolutely bullshit websites (in terms of bloat and performance) like ali express just fine.

            • solrize@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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              3 days ago

              Ah, oh well, thanks for the effort with homedepot. Yeah all sites on the 400 were bad, but homedepot was especially bad. I guess aliexpress is also pretty bad so if you can view that, it’s a good sign ;).