Re: Remote development with neovim, tmux and SSH from macOS?

Doug Hardie:
> [...] I have run FreeBSD 13 on a M1 Mini for awhile to test it out.  I
> have recently been using Raspberry Pi 4s as they are cheaper, smaller,
> and use less power.  They are a bit slower for disk access, but
> otherwise just as powerful. 

i have to say, having used both an M1 Mac Mini and a few RPis for
several months now, this doesn't match my experience at all.  the RPi4
is certainly pretty decent, especially for what it costs, but the CPU
performance of even the base M1 Mac Mini is so far ahead of the RPi4's
that there's really no comparison.

i've done plenty of desktop development work on an M1 Mac (mostly C++
and C# projects) and while the performance of the base model isn't
amazing, it's perfectly usable.  on the RPi, on the other hand, i find
the CPU is too slow to even compile ports usefully[0].

i only mention this because i wouldn't want someone to disregard the
idea of using an M1 (or later) Mac for FreeBSD simply because they found
the RPi too slow--they really have very little in common other than
using the same ISA.

	regards, lexi.

[0] yes, i did enable powerd.