@bradlinder granted #OrangePi - like all the "#RaspberryPi competitiors" - fail at the most important part:

#Documentation!

They do make the "superior" #hardware where 'number go bigger!' and 'benchmark go brr!' is the case, sometimes even with lower power and lower price but if all they do is vomit out SBCs and a few outdated, highly-customized & non-reproduceable boot images, that is all pointless at a certain degree...

  • Mind you I'm confident #JeffGeerling would be comfortable porting a minimalist #linux like @OS1337 to a board, but the average user & systems integrator ain't!

I mean, #ChrisBarnatt from #ExplainingComputers literally makes easy-to-digest content (and for those that prefer/have to use reading over watching and/or listening there are writeups everywhere!) going over #migrating from #Windows to #Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8vmXvoVjZw

Switching to Linux: A Beginner’s Guide

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Raspberry Pi 4 Alternatives: Five ARM Contenders

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