[aqsalose]

The hardware limitations and the "danger of server maintenance" points are valid. Only that

>That ever-so-slight delay between hitting a key and having it appear on screen will eventually wear you down.

You don't need to run a full blown desktop. TTY is snappy enough on my model 2B.

It's a great "learn to hack stuff on a cheap small computer" platform for my nephew (if I had a nephew [1]), and that's how it is advertised.

[1] On the other hand, I wonder how many RasPi users buy the thing because they wish they would have had it when they were of the age to be someone's nephew.

[copperx]

I use my Raspberry Pi as an always-on Emacs computer; all on a framebuffer. It's very refreshing to be able to turn on a monitor and be able to write a journal entry or manage a to-do list and then commit and push to a remote git repository. There's nothing to distract you besides M-x tetris.

I once considered buying an AlphaSmart Dana for this purpose, but you can't beat Emacs's keybindings (or vi's, if that's your thing).