Requiring a small nuclear reactor to power it aside, the Pi 5 feels far more like it's up to the task of a full desktop machine. Admittedly I haven't tried anything but headless workloads on mine so far, but it's so much snappier it's genuinely unreal. I'm really looking forward to seeing how much faster lidar localization and just SLAM in general runs on it once ROS support is sorted.
Although they did remove the h264 decoder and encoder which is a bummer, like you say it's hard to get working support for it anyway. Vulkan + regular GPU acceleration might be easier. And it still only has 4 cores which is crap for desktop multitasking.
Although they did remove the h264 decoder and encoder which is a bummer, like you say it's hard to get working support for it anyway. Vulkan + regular GPU acceleration might be easier. And it still only has 4 cores which is crap for desktop multitasking.