Can You Use Raspberry Pi 5 as a Desktop Computer?

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I am sure you can, but you will likely get better performance from a mini PC for roughly the same price.

Yeah, an intel N95 puck will absolutely demolish any Pi. By the time you add a case, a drive, a stable power brick, enough memory, a cooler, you're at the same price. With a PC, you're getting an NVME drive (2 pcie3.0 lanes because Intel can't let it eat the i3 market) @ 800MB/s. With a Pi, you are living off of a microSD card running at 50MB/s (and that craters with any writing or seeking).

you can get a mini PC for 87€ with BETTER performance than the Pi 5?

We are looking at:

2.4 GHz, 4GB of RAM, 4kp60 HECV de/enconding.

87€ does not include case, power supply, or microSD. Realistically close to 120€ to get a working system and for that kind of money yes you can get a newish Celeron powered PC with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD/NVME.

I am doing conversion from Canadian Dollar so my calculations and what is actually available in Europe might be off a bit. It is totally possible here though.