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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano struggles with Ubuntu, finds utility in Flatpak apps

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The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB, running Ubuntu Pro, is described as having a poor user experience with slow performance and a lack of native applications. Despite these drawbacks, it is deemed suitable for light LLM inferencing and edge AI tasks. The user notes that the integration of Pi Apps, which utilizes Flatpak, enables the use of preferred applications like Obsidian on the ARM 64 Ubuntu-based board. AI

IMPACT Limited utility for edge AI and LLM inferencing due to performance and usability issues.

RANK_REASON User review of a specific hardware/software combination.

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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano struggles with Ubuntu, finds utility in Flatpak apps

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # Jetson Orin Nano # Ubuntu is very unfriendly with no good native apps and is relatively slow running most programs. So, it is only good for doing some small L

    # Jetson Orin Nano # Ubuntu is very unfriendly with no good native apps and is relatively slow running most programs. So, it is only good for doing some small LLM inferencing and # edgeAI stuff like # LiDAR which I don't care cause I will be using # esp32 for that purpose. But th…

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