Raspberry Pi Announces PIXEL Desktop Environment

[grigi]

Chrome uses a lot of ram, and even a 1G system will get maxed out by Chrome incredibly easy...

[unixfan2001]

Chrome uses a lot of ram, and even a 1G system will get maxed out by Chrome incredibly easy...

It's Chromium (the open source variant), not Chrome.
That leaves room for all sorts of optimization.

[unixfan2001]

Besides. Google has an entire OS running with Chrome as its desktop and they seem to fare fine, even on low-end systems.

[dungeon]

Chrome uses a lot of ram, and even a 1G system will get maxed out by Chrome incredibly easy...

Only that high end RPi 3 has 1GB which is also shared with GPU, so at best it is even less then that

[darkbasic]

Chromium? Ahahahah good luck.

[sverris]

Argh, why not lxqt??

Because LXQT is not ready.

[Zoll]

I think Ubuntu Mate for Raspberry PI 3 is probably gaining more attraction. I have it on all my PIs and would probably never go back to Raspbian

[DIRT]

Yeah same. The ubuntu base is pretty nice. You can pick xubuntu lubuntu or ubuntu mate. Also ROS supports ubuntu a little better imo. It would be pretty cool if you could make a gnome 3 tablet out of a pi but I think you need more ram.

[nomadewolf]

Yet another Desktop Environment...

[monkeynut]

The Pi still has the problem however where running apt-get update and apt-get upgrade slowly breaks the system as time goes on. I have to wipe mine every so often and start from scratch.