Due to some unhappiness with Wayland, I tend to live in X11 mostly. I have a Pi 4B 8GB and a P5 8GB connected to a KVM and can easily bounce back and forth between them. Both are running the same OS install consisting of Bookworm, with MATE. As a matter of fact, I build and ran the install on the 4B before I copied it to run on the 5. The 5 is definitely faster, when used as a desktop when running my application suite. Very noticeably faster, such that the 4B now feels "slow". I was surprised by how obvious the difference was.I personally don't mind some minor inefficiencies, especially since the Raspberry Pi 5 is much more powerful than the Pi 4, but so far when trying X11 on Bookworm on the Pi 5, it runs with terrible performance compared to Bullseye on the Pi 4. If there's any way to fix that, I'd love to know.
I have another Bullseye build, with the same application suite, running on a 4B 4GB. I do not perceive the Bookworm install being slower.
The 5 is now running from a NVMe SSD making it even faster, but both were running off identical Kingston A400 SSDs, before I got the Pimoroni NVMe BASE.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:15 pm