Comment by Gigachad
13 hours ago
The pi, particularly the pi zero is still useful if you need something that can run normal software but not a full mini pc. One example I've seen is using a Pi zero as a "wireless usb" where you can plug it in to a machine that accepts files over usb, and can now drop files on to it over the network.
Maybe you could do this with a ESP32 but it's easy on linux where you can use all the normal tooling and filesystem drivers.
ESP32 can run FreeRTOS, and I think people nowadays have no idea how much stuff we could do in MS-DOS PCs even with all their limitations for the epoch.
ESP32 hardware is much better than they used to be.
Not everything needs to be under Linux monoculture, thankfully.