Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️part of the horror of working with old SBCs is finding out exactly what they mean by "we've got official linux support!"
TRUSTY TAHR?! YOU WANT ME TO USE UBUNTU 14.04?
Hamish M (VK3FSB)@foone Armbian?
@hmoffatt this is an x86 board, so no
@foone although there is https://www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/ not that I've ever tried it, and not going to work for you if it really needs UEFI
Generic Intel / AMD
Better then Ubuntu? No Canonical proprietary solutions. Better then Debian? More recent package base. Better then both: HiDPI support for GRUB and desktop (automated adjustments on big screen resolutions), immutable firmware (kernel upgrade locked to additionally enhance stability), NVIDIA graphics acceleration with proprietary driver, Intel graphics acceleration also works out of the box, preinstalled Google …