That's not a myth. You quite literally can do everything a Pi can do on a PC, and a lot more. You can add GPIO to any PC. There are two things RPi can beat PCs on, size and price; but it can't compete with PCs on features and general computing power. Sure, most PCs don't have GPIO out of the box (although the now uncommon parallel port could fill that role on older PCs), but PCs are large modular computers, not tiny SBCs (there are x86 SBCs, but I wouldn't really class them as PCs). You can also get more minimalist PC motherboards, in terms of using the PC platform as an embedded system or similar.The third myth is "you can do the same things on a PC as you could on a raspberry pi"
now obviously bull crap the raspberry pi has gpio pins that can be used for fans and circuitry that you possibly want to make that can be integrated into the system or not . On the other hand a PC does not have this. the average PC is mostly used for software development and does not have gpio pins.
It's just totally different products for totally different markets. I don't think your topic is well founded in reality, frankly. People don't think RPi is a stupid idea, in general, that's just not something I see being said at all. They might think it's a stupid idea to try to replace a PC with a Pi for certain applications or purposes, and they might well be right about that some of the time. The RPi is not intended to be a PC replacement, it's just a neat little computer than happens to be able to do some of the same things as a PC at the low end (which can, maybe, make it a suitable alternative to a PC for some people in some limited applications/usage).
The RPi is a great little product, at a pretty good price, within its limitations.
Statistics: Posted by Murph9000 — Thu Sep 19, 2024 3:01 am