Debian Edu and Raspberry Pi

["Roman Meier" <roman.meier@gismap.ch>]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for hardware alternatives to be used as clients. Currently we
are using Toughbooks (CP28 and 29) as thin clients.

I am considering the Raspberry Pi but information is very limited.
However, I came across the following documentation, which sounds
promising:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/RaspberryPiWorkstation

How good or bad are experiences with Debian Edu running on Raspberry Pis?
Is this a viable option?

The documentation from above installs a full workstation requiring an Sd
card. Is the Rpi strong enough to handle this well, e.g. using big
softwares like libreOffice?

Is it possible to use the Rpi as thin client instead?

Kind regards,
Roman