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One of the key selling points for me is the RasPi OS and software ecosystem. Raspbian a great distro, very well aligned with the hardware. Getting a generic dis

• kelnos 6y ago
  In some ways I see this as a downside. Despite how many years the RPi has been a thing, the drivers for it still aren't fully upstreamed to the Linux kernel, and the device tree in mainline is very different from that in the RPi Foundation's kernel fork. The RPi-specific userspace bits are just (in the past year or so) starting to become more standard (like moving the stuff in /opt/vc to standard system locations, having a normal kernel headers package). I don't want a specially-built OS just for one piece of hardware. I want to run stock Debian, with a stock kernel. And yes, I can do that, but as you hit at, the experience is sometimes lacking (for a while I couldn't get sound to work with stock Debian). I've been looking at some of the RPi workalike boards that run Armbian... I haven't dug into it yet to evaluate the quality of Armbian, but I at least like the overall approach of having one OS that can support different chipsets and boards.