> The Raspberry Pi is a fully fledged Linux Desktop,
I'm not sure I agree with this, lots of Pis are sold for projects which don't involve use as a desktop. In fact—from what I've seen—only a small percentage of Pis are actually used as day-to-day computing devices.
But in addition to the Pi, there is Pine64 which is exclusively sold as a "Desktop" platform with both laptops and workstations.
But I was talking more about the number of apps available on the platform than the number of units sold.
Software support for Windows ARM is a bit of a crapshoot which makes it hard to estimate what's out there.
It may not majority be used as a desktop, but it is marketed as such. You go to the raspberry pi store in Cambridge, and the first thing you see is it's use as a desktop.
The use cases for the Raspberry PI is ridiculously varied which I think reinforces it's application support relative to Windows on ARM.
I have seen it used for openstack development, as a desktop, home theatre pc, pihole, nextcloud instance, emulator etc... I haven't really found software that I can't just install/use.
Can you say the same for any windows on arm deployment? Especially if they are only just coming out with mainstream support for OpenJDK and Electron support.
In fact the alternative uses for the Pi are arguably as interesting/ important to its significance as a platform. A lot of little side projects which the Pi gets used for now used to be low end Windows boxes.
I'm not sure I agree with this, lots of Pis are sold for projects which don't involve use as a desktop. In fact—from what I've seen—only a small percentage of Pis are actually used as day-to-day computing devices.
But in addition to the Pi, there is Pine64 which is exclusively sold as a "Desktop" platform with both laptops and workstations.
But I was talking more about the number of apps available on the platform than the number of units sold.
Software support for Windows ARM is a bit of a crapshoot which makes it hard to estimate what's out there.