Can Raspberry Pi be used as a normal computer?

[EZEQUIAS]

I heard about a board called raspberry pi, it's a little bit like the arduino. I also heard that it can be used as a normal computer and this intrigued me because of its small size. Can it be used for this purpose?

[fishbate]

It can be use as a normal computer if your willing to make some adjustments on some compatibility issues. Its actually a computer on i card size form, but of course running it as normal as a desktop or laptop is not that easy. Although running Raspberry PI as it self is actually is easy because the features of a desktop are all in there,  mouse port, key board port, Screen port, etc. One problem you'l probably bump into is compatibility with Network applications and OS to software integration. I am really not an expert or a user of  Raspberry, i just learned about it on a training i attended long ago.