It can't play X265 encoded movies, which are becoming increasingly common.
I found youtube 1080p videos too choking on full screen.
As a desktop it's OK for light and occasional work. You can use the libreoffice suite and browser.
(Eventually for media playback, i bought an Android box from a Chinese site and installed LibreElec 8.2)
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 12:20, Baskar Selvaraj baskar@linuxpert.in wrote:
RPI3 chokes on anything above 1024 x 768. Frame skips and annoying lags are common.
In LibreELEC, when displaying at FHD (1080p) I haven't noticed any drops in Frame rate even when playing the videos from remote computers.
As a Desktop, I use only terminal.