Sure these other boards are supported by some distros but nothing beats the raspberry pi community size. This is a huge help trying to get something to work, fo

Sure these other boards are supported by some distros but nothing beats the raspberry pi community size. This is a huge help trying to get something to work, for examples etc. > Unless you spend a lot on LTS hardware (guaranteed, not just labeled as such), many manufacturers will stop releasing/updating their own distro after some time. Just concentrate on the hardware. Raspberry Pi hardware is LTS, even boards like the pi zero are guaranteed to be manufactured for years to come. Raspbian (now RaspberryPiOS) still runs on the very first pi that was released. > It might seem odd but it's not; we don't ask Asus or Supermicro to release an operating system for their mainboards, do we? So why we should expect that from SBC manufacturers when there is perfectly good 3rd party support around? This is ignoring the problem that ARM boards are much less open than intel ones. There's a lot of NDA-restricted documentation when it comes to things like graphics chips. You don't install Android on your iPhone. Even when these distros support a board, it doesn't mean you can get every feature of it to work. Even the graphics chip of the pi was considered 'closed' for a long time due to NDAs.