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You don't need old as in 20 year old. just cheap / second hand fanless computers like 2nd or 3rd gen NUCs, raspberry Pi's etc
by jack_pp 4y ago
You don't need old as in 20 year old. just cheap / second hand fanless computers like 2nd or 3rd gen NUCs, raspberry Pi's etc
- Gigachad 4y agoIs anyone actually using the pi as a desktop? Feels like most people need a laptop for portability, which is already many times more powerful than the pi, and then if you do have a non portable desktop, it's for gaming.
- jack_pp 4y agoI've read comments in the past of people adventuring into these kinds of scenarios though I haven't tried to use a pi as a desktop. I use old laptops. My daily driver until a year ago was a Dell e7470 which worked well enough for browsing and coding in VSCode.. until the keyboard broke, twice. Now it's gathering dust because I'm too lazy to change the keyboard again but it should work fine on linux atleast. My current daily driver is a thinkpad t490 with an i7-8565U and 16 GB of ram that was provided for me at work and which I can buy used for 500$ atm. But if what you want is fanless and decent hardware I'd recommend a NUC.