The Pi as a Productivity Machine
Eben Upton, Gareth Halfacree · 2016
The flexibility of the Raspberry Pi makes it a good choice as a low-power, general-purpose desktop computer. The Raspbian operating system, available from the Raspberry Pi website, includes the popular LibreOffice productivity suite as standard. This provides equivalents to all the tools one would expect to find in a commercial product such as Microsoft Office: a word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation tool, and even applications for creating diagrams or mathematical formulae. If users use their Pi connected to the Internet the majority of the time, either through the integrated Ethernet port, built-in wireless, or through a USB wired or wireless adapter on models without integrated networking, cloud-based software offers them a powerful yet lightweight means of using office-centric software on the Pi. If they prefer not to use a cloud-based service, the alternative is to use LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a powerful piece of software, but one area where it lacks is in image editing.