I would add the qualifier "modern" to that statement. It is either amazing or deplorably awful how much resources a modern desktop requires/consumes. Part of that is more hardware capabilities means you can do more delightful things, but sadly part of that is vast tracks of hardware performance and resources means you can get away with very wasteful programming and giant all singing all dancing libraries which translate into giant bloated applications.The games might be emulated which is a huge amount of work for a Zero. It's a 1GHz, 512MB, ARM v6 core, (same as the the Pi1 launched 12 years ago) so you cannot expect great performance when running a desktop.
If you want to do development or want lots of performance, get a Pi 5. The Zero is not targeted at your use case. The Pi5 is probably 100 times faster but more importantly, has loads of memory in comparison which makes a huge difference for desktop use.
512MB of system ram used to be a huge amount of ram and systems with that level of resources certainly were capable of running very functional desktops. Now, any vaguely current processor has a larger cache.
The combination of a very old (in electronics lifespans) and a current desktop are not going to end well. No one has claimed that Bookworm with the full GUI is going to run well on a Zero. Quite frankly it is more akin to a dancing elephant....
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:59 pm