So given the UK's plan to make the costs of living higher (because reasons), I decided last night, fine, I'll cut back on my electricity bill and go with a low powered computer and settled on the Raspberry Pi 400, bcause...I like the form factor, and it is a much, much lower powered device than either my desktop, or laptop that sucks down wall power like it's going out of style, because hey, sealed Dell and wonky battery. Plus after recent experiences i'm a bit skittish about lithium batteries thank you very much, thank you being linked to articles on thermal runaway and UPS Flight 6. Thanks for that...
So. Those of you who have, or have used Pis in the past or currently use them.
1. Aside from Stormux, which is the distro I'm eyeing to put on it...is Raspberry Pi OS any good in general? I'd be going with the Bullseye version. How good's the Pixel desktop as far as general usage and Orca and suchlike?
2. This is the biggie. How can I ensure my SD card won't wear out in a few months/weeks with log file writes? I know, log2ram, and configs and such. I know about that and it's on my list to get that working once my Pi gets here, but any other good ways to minimize the SD wear? I'm eyeing getting a USB SSD or HDD to go with the Pi too, but given I have a puppy in the house I don't really want cables jerked out or chewed up at all.
3. How good/bad/meh/whatever else, is the keyboard? I've not found astupidly in depth overview of it, most of the stuff I've read is along the lines of oh, it's on okay keyboard, without going into okay so hey, there's no Super/Windows key, there's mdia keys, that sort of thing
4. I've seen mixed reports for the web browsing. I don't need Youtube since I can do that via command line stuff, but I'm planning to do stuff like Kodi on it, and web surfing/emails. From all I've found/been told, and asking on the Stormux list, my Pi 400 should be good for that.
5. How slow, really, are updates? I did see it took 45mins-1hr to do a series of updates due to the processor being slow.
EDIT: Okay fixed the title. Didn't realize I messed it up
Also on Linux natively