I don’t expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it’s based on a micro-SD and I don’t have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice “work” on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what’s possible with it?
You have the pi. Install Linux and find out? It takes like 10 mins… Otherwise it really depends on what you want to do and your expectations.
I’ve got a raspberry pi 1 (didn’t even have on-board wifi) that I just fired up the other day. It’s pretty slow but if you just wanted to do some simple python development it might be fine (depending on your patience for installing dependencies).