@Billie

> Finally, also lucky to get rid of #rasberrypios in favor of #debian and #arm in favor of #amd64 .

That resonates with me. For an OS that traces its heritage directly to Debian, it sure feels different and not in a good way. The 64 bit variant pulls directly from Debian repos.

I don't share your disdain for ARM but of course my desktop is an AMD Ryzen and my primary server, a Xeon.

I think I'd like an ARM host with decent performance and proper I/O for a server.

@deliri Either way, @bananapi illustrates the problem with (halfassed) #RaspberryPi competitiors:

• It's not enough to just spit out an SBC and some bootable ROM! The people want proper #documentation. And besides @raspberry_pi / #RaspberryPi, very few actually write those (i.e. @olimex )…

Cuz if people like #ChrisBarnatt struggle to do anything, why should anyone even more competent like @geerlingguy invest his precious time to make fundamental basics work?

• I mean as much as he jokes about having to compile the #LinuxKernel, I'm pretty shure $5 in hardware cost savings isn't going to get him up and fanboy things.

Personally, I think everytime he has to fiddle around that neck-deep, I consider this a fundamental failure by said SBC if not #ARM64 as #architecture, as in almost all cases this is something that just works on #amd64!

• Espechally since these are "consumer-facing" boards with "consumer-style interfaces" and advertised to consumers, not some obscure embedded/industrial SOM like a #Vortex86!