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The last time I checked out the Asus Tinker it was still suffering from horrendous software support and cost nearly twice as much in the UK (which it still does
by kingosticks 9y ago
The last time I checked out the Asus Tinker it was still suffering from horrendous software support and cost nearly twice as much in the UK (which it still does, £32 vs £55). So unless you NEED those extra features, I strongly disagree.
- onesun 9y agoI bought one and played with it over the holidays and there are a ton of OS options now. There's Armbian support now, which wasn't around at first, and it seems to be very stable and feature complete. The board is significantly more powerful than a Pi 3 with emulators and compiling and just about everything.
- kingosticks 9y agoI had so many problems with Tinker OS and I wasn't the only one. Never tried Armbian so maybe it's better, how's the graphics performance with that?
- zielmicha 9y agoYou can actually boot Raspbian (or probably any other ARM OS) on Asus Tinkerboard - you only need to copy some files to /boot (including kernel) from TinkerOS and several kilobytes of bootloader after partition table. (That way you can prepare image that boots both on RPi and Tinkerboard)
- kingosticks 9y agoThat sounds cool! Does the tinker board hdmi/audio work when booting raspbian?
- zielmicha 9y agoHDMI works (only kernel support and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev for Xorg is required), I haven't tested audio. Example hybrid image for Tinkerboard and RPi is here (based on Ubuntu): https://files.husarion.com/husarion-core2-ros.img.xz https://files.husarion.com/husarion-core2-ros.img.xz (unfortunately the build scripts are not public yet)
- alexissantos 9y agoI can vouch. As of November 2017, software support was still pretty rough.