The Pi 4 is my go-to machine for sound installations. Where the 3B was just too short on memory (I run mostly on JVM which can be demanding). You also have headroom to create a big RAM disk, which can speed up processes quite a bit. The plenty of USB ports means you can easily connect sound interfaces, external harddrives etc., or plug-in a Pico if need to outsource some sensor code to a micro controller.

an hour of commandline fiddling

This is of course if you are not familiar with it. I guess the Pi 4 appeals a lot to linux users, like myself, because I don’t even have to think about most things I do on the command line, as they are essentially the same as on my desktop laptop. Logging in via VNC makes it just another computer that works exactly like the other computer. So yes, learning curve is there, but then it becomes second nature; been using them for four years now (3B and 4B).

Hi there. Not going to recreate my deleted Reddit account now ;)

well, I keep my fingers crossed then that it’ll land in Debian stable :-o

“This is solved in 45, but will not backported.”

Well, all my troubles go away when I switch from Wayland to X11. So it be. I read somewhere, current Wayland support is kinda broken with Intel integrated graphics.

FWIF, it seems to affect “normal Gnome” on Wayland online. Both Gnome Classic and Gnome on X11 are snappy fast. So I keep running Gnome on X11 for now.

It works for some column types here, like Type, or Accessed, but not for Modified or Modified – Time. Which version are you using? Mine is 43.2.