Broadly speaking, I would not rely too much on support from manufacturers but rather by the communities when the projects are stable enough. Manufacturers have

Broadly speaking, I would not rely too much on support from manufacturers but rather by the communities when the projects are stable enough. Manufacturers have the tendency to slow or halt support in a few years because it costs them money, or to push newer products, while communities support usually lasts much longer. For example, the NanoPi NEO Core official images all still use a 4.14 kernel (2017-2018), while the ones at Armbian use the current mainline 5.10. https://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Core#Install_OS https://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Core#... https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/ https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/