@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!

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

#Documentation!

• I mean, don't get people like #ChrisBarnatt and @geerlingguy started on the fact that in terms of #support, all those competitiors don't eben come close.

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 is the case, sometimes even with lower power and lower price but if all they do is vomit out SBCs and a few outdated, highly-customized & non-reproduceable boot images, that is all pointless at a certain degree...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