Lionel Élie Mamane dijo [Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:59:08AM +0100]: > > If you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 - it woill work as a small desktop, > > more or less silently. To fit extra disks you'll need an add on case > > - something like the Argon which will take NVME. There are > > bottlenecks. It's still essentially a phone SOC. It's not *free* > > because blobs and if you want peripherals, you more or less are tied > > to running Raspberry Pi OS. > > What ties me into Raspberry Pi OS for peripherals? Non-free drivers > and/or firmware that cannot get into Debian, or just "it is not > packaged for Debian because nobody did the work but could be"?
Most of what you need from a Raspberry in terms of using it as "just" a computer, you will be getting from a standard Debian install. You will want to look at RaspberryOS if you want to work with specific "hats", with some electronics-oriented buses, or such. I don't know the current status of video acceleration, but if I understand correctly, it is (beginning to be) supported in mainline kernels.
