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

And you can run Windows! Sometimes that's needed.

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.