Is a single payer suitable for development?

Question

Iron

Colleagues, good day.
A long time ago there was an idea to transfer to a single-payer, but the question always stopped me - will it pull?
On board I would like to see lubuntu / armbian on lxde
From what you need - a browser (ideally chrome) 10-15 tabs at the same time, a filezilla or an analogue and a code editor, ideally a sublime.
Well, of course, some kind of player, ideally, of course, Yandex.music from the browser.
I liked Orange Pi Plus 2e, I even put it in the basket, but because I do not see any other tasks for him except for the work I do not draw up yet

Answer 1

Move on, move on! If all developers are cut in resources, then you look, and we will not need a supermegacomp to read news on the Internet! :)

Answer 2

I would strongly advise ODROID-C2 (or more expensive ODROID-XU4), with an eMMC module, it will work great.
Orange Pi for desktop would not recommend.

Answer 3

If you want to play at home for the soul - at least on a calculator.
If you want to do something serious, iron should be fine. It can be without frills, but complete. Single-boarders are still toys for robotics and carpc

Answer 4

The third raspberry, when playing YouTube, is heated with passive radiators until the system warns. So you need to look at what's in the tabs.
Well, I can hardly imagine compiling something big without a normal processor / SSD / heap of memory. If we write code on the client, and compile / run on the server, you can also code on a single-platform.

Answer 5

I advise you to look at the support for this board. For example, I have Banana pi m2 Ultra, Debian Mate, average on average 2

Answer 6

I can advise, although I haven’t used it myself - a rather interesting solution, as for me, is a full-fledged x86 percent on one board, although there is also an arduin sewn in as a bonus, but what can you do. There are two versions, two prices, in general, read the review on Habré =)
LattePanda
Of course, this is much more expensive than oranges and raspberries, but damn it - there is an ordinary processor, usb, another 3.0, hdmi and a thousand flowing buns. I have the same percentage in my tablet, it’s clear that it doesn’t pull Windows with chrome tabs and videos like a normal desktop, but on 2 gigs it’s enough for 5-6 tabs of acceptable work. High-quality video pulls well, especially without overheating.

Answer 7

For a one-time development or sometimes for the same single-payer (that is, when it’s not every day for 10-15 hours) - then yes, it will do. In all other cases - no, it will not work. There are very few resources there - I felt both raspberries and oranges. Compiling something more or less serious takes many hours, and something big takes even longer. And when developing software, you often need to have at hand a bunch of different programs (often very heavy), browsers, OS, you often need to put some kind of bad: and the best way is to put it in a virtual machine. And the faster the computer is, the more comfortable it is to work. And in general - it is very convenient to clone a virtual machine in a couple of clicks and ten seconds and calmly expose it to all sorts of punishments and without the risk of breaking the main system.