It used to be typical for every variation of Raspberry Pi to require booting from an SD or microSD card. It wasn't until the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B that the firmware received an update for booting ...
I'm about to pull the trigger on ordering a Raspberry Pi 400 as a system to do web dev testing, occasional light server duties, maybe some retro gaming from time to time, and running networking labs ...
In a rather curious turn, the Raspberry Pi foundation has released an x86 PC port of its PIXEL+Debian Linux desktop environment. PIXEL (which is a clunky backronym for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment ...