The only Pi I’m hoping to see is Pi Zero 3 W (or whatever the next iteration may be). Z2W still packs decent performance considering its size. Pi5 arrived too late and was displaced by the N100 micro bricks imo.

Do you have an example n100 you like / would recommend? Been thinking of trying one out.

I got this one when it was on sale for about $135:

https://a.co/d/7XSrYmL

Looking back, the SSD was garbage so I ended up using my own nvme. But it’s a little solid piece. It came with some windows but I just put Debian on it.

The price is not that much higher than pi with all the accessories and give you multiples of performance

I have two of these. One caveat I'd mention is that the power buttons are flimsy. On one of them I have to push kinda hard to get it to do anything, so I dread it if they ever lose power.

A cool project with this would be 3D print a mini Connection Machine 5 (CM-5) model made out of Raspi CM5 modules. Some tiny led panels would be killer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine#/media/File...

I guess most people know, but main appeal here is the long-term software support provided in https://www.raspbian.org/ courtesy of 'Raspberry PI (Trading) limited'.

Are there any benefits in using Raspberry Pi OS (the continuation of Raspbian), over unmodified Debian? Are the support windows different?

The Debian images (https://raspi.debian.net/) haven't been updated recently and don't support the Pi 5 at all. And support for other hardware is inconsistent.