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[โ€“] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They existed at 4x the price.

I think raspberry pi really shone on the software side of things. ARM boards often tend to be a bit of ship-and-forget. RaspberryPi OS still supports the OG 14 years later, while most other distros have left 32 bit support in the dust.

[โ€“] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thats a really good point on both sides. I thought you might be overstating it on the price, but I looked it up and the XM in 2010 was at $150! BeagleBone in 2011 launched at $89 and in 2013 the BeagleBone Black came out at $45 so they were definitely playing catch up on the price. Raspberry Pi OS support has also been fantastic, with a bunch of flavors still hanging around. I used to use Arch for Pi because Debian didn't have MongoDB packaged in the version I needed ๐Ÿ˜„

EDIT: For clarity Raspberry Pi launched in 2012 at the famously cheap $35