Comment by franciscop
17 days ago
I feel these comparisons are a bit funny. The "RasPi 5 is no match for X", showing a picture of a computer that seems around 5-8x times bigger in area, and probably around 20x bigger in volume. They also cost A LOT more, but if you get them second hand only +50%. Color me surprised, even when ignoring the general totally different markets of those, even as a tiny PC these are not fair comparisons (specially comparing a second-hand device to the full cost of a new Raspi, adding the accessories that we all hackers/makers already have).
A ton of people use Pis as small home servers and for that use case, there are imho better options.
Yes, for ALL purposes that people use the Pis for there's definitely a better, more specific option. But that's the great thing of the Pis, that they are very general-purpose for hobbyists, while also being very well standardized and documented (and run Ubuntu).