It depends how hard it is. I installed OpenMediaVault on my Pi and it's worked great ever since. I don't think any other option would have resulted in less work for me.
As far as solar goes, where I live it's not worth getting, so I can't comment there. Raspberry Pi costs $5 a year to run. A 60 Watt computer costs $79 a year to run. I agree that if it's very difficult to setup a Pi it might be worth the extra cost for the computer, but the energy savings are pretty incredible.
As far as solar goes, where I live it's not worth getting, so I can't comment there. Raspberry Pi costs $5 a year to run. A 60 Watt computer costs $79 a year to run. I agree that if it's very difficult to setup a Pi it might be worth the extra cost for the computer, but the energy savings are pretty incredible.