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    Use a Raspberry Pi as your daily driver

    Dec 15, 2020 5 minutes

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    Christian Cawley is a technology writer and Doctor Who fan. Sigh.

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    The Pi 4 works as a daily driver. But if there’s something you can’t do with it, go and use your wheezing desktop and come back to the low-budget, environmentally friendly Pi.

    Popular desktop collaboration tools are hard to come by for the Raspberry Pi. While Slack has a desktop version, its browser interface is a smart alternative. For Asana, browser access is straightforward, and easier to switch between multiple accounts than the mobile app.

    Mozilla Firefox might be a popular alternative, but if you’re expecting to use your Raspberry Pi as a desktop replacement, Chromium currently offers the best support for vital web tools that you will need.

    Much has been written about using a Raspberry Pi as a desktop replacement. When the Raspberry Pi launched in 2012, this seemed

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