These sorts of articles come up a lot on HN, where it's "I did <some mundane thing for any recent x86 PC> with a Raspberry Pi!" There's an odd fascination with

These sorts of articles come up a lot on HN, where it's "I did <some mundane thing for any recent x86 PC> with a Raspberry Pi!" There's an odd fascination with this specific brand of hardware that I can never totally wrap my mind around. I guess it's probably an easy way for people to try out a Linux based computer with a minimal expenditure, and a launching point for new users to start trying things out. Of course, it's not like RPi has a monopoly on little low powered Linux computers either - there are plenty of alternatives even in that niche (e.g. from Pine64).