How is it better for children learning coding? It’s only really useable if you already have all the electronics you would need for a child to learn to code. You need all the expensive periphery, you need a second computer to write SD cards.
How is it better for tinkerers than x86? An ecosystem where you have motherboards with interchangeable CPUs, RAM, daughter boards. Sure the GPIO is nice but generally I’m too worried about frying my 50€ board, I’d rather use a 5€ microcontroller for that stuff. Back when the first raspberry came out it was actually the cheapest way to get an easily programmable device with ethernet capabilities. But now I can get a nice esp32 board for 5€.
Self-hosting, I’d rather use a computer where my distro of choice works. Not a raspberry pi where mainline support is still a struggle after many years. And device trees are still more pain than I’m usually willing to deal with.
The unique selling point for me has been hands-on experience with Linux on ARM and it generally hasn’t been a great experience.
They just sort of played us for fools.
How is it better for children learning coding? It’s only really useable if you already have all the electronics you would need for a child to learn to code. You need all the expensive periphery, you need a second computer to write SD cards.
How is it better for tinkerers than x86? An ecosystem where you have motherboards with interchangeable CPUs, RAM, daughter boards. Sure the GPIO is nice but generally I’m too worried about frying my 50€ board, I’d rather use a 5€ microcontroller for that stuff. Back when the first raspberry came out it was actually the cheapest way to get an easily programmable device with ethernet capabilities. But now I can get a nice esp32 board for 5€.
Self-hosting, I’d rather use a computer where my distro of choice works. Not a raspberry pi where mainline support is still a struggle after many years. And device trees are still more pain than I’m usually willing to deal with.
The unique selling point for me has been hands-on experience with Linux on ARM and it generally hasn’t been a great experience.