Most of it comes down to the modern web being a massive bloated pile of crap.
My desktop experience on low power ARM machines only really falls apart when it comes time to do modern web things (twitch, youtube, discord). Live video streaming largely works great at 480-720p, but if I don't hurry up and disable chat when there are more than 100 people talking it quickly brings the entire system to its knees.
Although I can't really blame my pinebook pro when that happens because I have recentish dual core machines (Macbook Air 2017) that hit 100% cpu usage when twitch or youtube live stream chats are moving quickly.
My desktop experience on low power ARM machines only really falls apart when it comes time to do modern web things (twitch, youtube, discord). Live video streaming largely works great at 480-720p, but if I don't hurry up and disable chat when there are more than 100 people talking it quickly brings the entire system to its knees.
Although I can't really blame my pinebook pro when that happens because I have recentish dual core machines (Macbook Air 2017) that hit 100% cpu usage when twitch or youtube live stream chats are moving quickly.