I have Astoberry on 2 Raspberry Pi 4's and it is fantastic. But I've had three Pi4's die on me in the past, and given the high cost of pi these days, I decided to try an alternative - Libre Le Potato (2GB, 4 ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.512GHz, 64-bit)

I got Armbian/Ubuntu 22.04 installed, and I got Indi and Kstars installed. I've tested it out over RDP and it does work. However, it is noticeably slower than the Pi4 (to be expected since this is advertised as more of a Pi3 replacement). But I would like to streamline this gadget as much as possible to squeeze out all possible performance. This means getting rid of bloat and unnecessary startup apps and tasks.

I've read Jerry Black's Odroid writeup (my inspiration for attempting this), but that device seems to have enough horsepower to overcome any shortcomings.

I use VNC on the RP4's, but I read RDP is faster, so that's what I'm using on this Le Potato. I'm also using xfce and lightdm.

Further suggestions?

Cheers!

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