> If one really wants small form factor and lower power consumption why not choose a pine64, orange pi or radxa boards? Yes, certain features like hdmi(on Quart

> If one really wants small form factor and lower power consumption why not choose a pine64, orange pi or radxa boards? Yes, certain features like hdmi(on Quartz64), or hardware accelerated video encode/decode is only supported in older kernels, but if one needs a generic network box even fairly new Linux kernels work. To not play "what the fuck doesn't work on it" lottery. Over years I had a bunch of different boards and it is always something that needs proprietary drivers that inevitably are pinned to some old kernel, or just something doesn't work very well. Now rPi4 still isn't 100% supported in upstream kernel but just installing raspbian just works. Same with all expansion boards, they will generally need only a little configuration on rPi but anything else is crapshoot. > but if one needs a generic network box even fairly new Linux kernels work. There are dedicated ones with multiple NICs for that purpose, both ARM and x86.