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I actually recommend spending slightly more money on something like a Beaglebone Black so you can run standard Debian, or any other standard ARM distro. Raspberry Pi requires too many specific hacks to be easy to use.
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If the cost difference is that much, that's pretty reasonable. By hacking, I just mean that the Pi isn't actually supported by the mainline kernel of mainstream distributions. It requires specific proprietary firmware to boot that will limit you to only running specialized operating systems like "rasbpian."