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What is benefit of buying a Pi rather than Linux Partition.

KeithSloan

I would like to read people thoughts on the benefits of buying a Rasberry Pi rather than just installing Linux in a partition on the family PC and dual booting.

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  • 1) You can continue to use your Windows partition while running Linux on the 'pi.

    2) The 'pi has a nice small SD card as storage. You can easily store an image on your PC that you can shove to the SD card if your child manages to make the SD card unbootable.

    3) could be used to "control" things around the house and cost less in terms of power.

     

    (And many more. But if you're asking, maybe a Raspberry Pi is not for you. Feel free to just use a Linux partition on your PC if you want to experiment with Linux).

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  • 1) You can continue to use your Windows partition while running Linux on the 'pi.

    2) The 'pi has a nice small SD card as storage. You can easily store an image on your PC that you can shove to the SD card if your child manages to make the SD card unbootable.

    3) could be used to "control" things around the house and cost less in terms of power.

     

    (And many more. But if you're asking, maybe a Raspberry Pi is not for you. Feel free to just use a Linux partition on your PC if you want to experiment with Linux).

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