Many boards have working distros, lots of software already ported and dedicated people in forums willing to help newbies; the problem lies in that "on par". The

Many boards have working distros, lots of software already ported and dedicated people in forums willing to help newbies; the problem lies in that "on par". The Raspberry Pi foundation can put some good money where other boards would rely mostly on enthusiasts. That's the point: with the Raspberries you get their Raspbian/RPiOS, while other boards manufacturers usually don't offer comparable quality distros, therefore it is often much better to use a 3rd party community produced distros. So, on par? No. Good enough? Yes, definitely. Take a look at the number of boards supported by Armbian and DietPi for example. https://www.armbian.com/download/ https://www.armbian.com/download/ https://dietpi.com/#download https://dietpi.com/#download