More than that, it keeps alive some of the original spirit that has gone
from the Microsoft/Apple market: early PCs were hackable to some extent by users (remember when you got BIOS listings in the Technical Manuals?), but current proprietary machines effectively have a big sign across them
saying "No User-Serviceable Parts Inside" (and this applies to both
hardware and software).
Conversely, the Linux-running Raspberry Pi invites you to open it up and
mess around, both in terms of hardware and software. And this is
deliberate, by design.
This is some of the reason I have been drawn to sbc computing over the past
few years. Adding things to them is not quite like the old "open the case
and slide a new card in" procedure, but the ability to tinker is still certainly there.
* SLMR 2.1a * If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice!
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