Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?

You can run ARM Win 11 on the RPi 5, even in VMs. But that doesn't seem terribly practical, the little N100 I have running Home Assistant cost less than $90... I will stick with the Zero 2 W for anything in the sweet spot of "needs an OS but isn't doing too much, and uses GPIO" and x86_64 for anything bigger.

If you want to call “running” it doing it without complete networking and graphics support…