I found the dashboard to be no more responsive, the only really noticeable difference was when restarting HA it would be back up and running in a few seconds.
My reason for swapping was I kept running up against a lack of support when trying to do anything beyond the basics whereas you’re usually overrun with people who’ve been there done that on a Pi and they are different enough that someone with no understanding of linux like myself spent a lot of time going round in circles trying to fix what were probably quite simple things.
Thanks guys. Appreciate the feedback. Think Ill setup an exact copy of what I have going this weekend on my mac and do some comparasons. Really just want my dashboards to be 100% no delay and reliable. What are your dashboards on? Ive been testing on an ipad pro. Im either going to pick up 2-3 ipad airs to put in the wall or a few of the amazon fire hd 10 inch. I like the fire because I can do the wake on motion and thats big.