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> The Raspberry Pi is a fully fledged Linux Desktop, I'm not sure I agree with this, lots of Pis are sold for projects which don't involve use as a desktop. In
by ogre_codes 6y ago
> The Raspberry Pi is a fully fledged Linux Desktop,
I'm not sure I agree with this, lots of Pis are sold for projects which don't involve use as a desktop. In fact—from what I've seen—only a small percentage of Pis are actually used as day-to-day computing devices.
But in addition to the Pi, there is Pine64 which is exclusively sold as a "Desktop" platform with both laptops and workstations.
But I was talking more about the number of apps available on the platform than the number of units sold.
Software support for Windows ARM is a bit of a crapshoot which makes it hard to estimate what's out there.
- kd913 6y agoIt may not majority be used as a desktop, but it is marketed as such. You go to the raspberry pi store in Cambridge, and the first thing you see is it's use as a desktop. The use cases for the Raspberry PI is ridiculously varied which I think reinforces it's application support relative to Windows on ARM. I have seen it used for openstack development, as a desktop, home theatre pc, pihole, nextcloud instance, emulator etc... I haven't really found software that I can't just install/use. Can you say the same for any windows on arm deployment? Especially if they are only just coming out with mainstream support for OpenJDK and Electron support.
- ogre_codes 6y agoYou are talking to the choir here. In fact the alternative uses for the Pi are arguably as interesting/ important to its significance as a platform. A lot of little side projects which the Pi gets used for now used to be low end Windows boxes.
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