Use a Raspberry Pi as your daily driver

Much has been written about using a Raspberry Pi as a desktop replacement. When the Raspberry Pi launched in 2012, this seemed unfeasible. With the arrival of the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4, it is eminently possible.

Take the basic specification of a low-cost desktop PC from a well-known retail park supplier. The Lenovo IdeaCentre 3 is under $900 and features an i5 CPU, 5GB RAM, and a 1TB drive. Storage aside, there isn’t anything to set that computer apart from a quad-core 1.5GHz Raspberry Pi 4. In many ways this is comparing apples and oranges, but it seems like the Pi is ready for “the big time.” Of course, there’s only one way to find out, which is why we’ve spent a working week using the Raspberry Pi as our main computer.