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There are other SoCs, but none has anything like the vast, vast, vast ecosystem of tutorials, videos, packages, and accessories that Pi has developed over the p

• joezydeco 4y ago
  ...everything except real technical documentation on the part, which Broadcom won't give you. Oh yeah, and you can't actually buy the part alone. So you're stuck buying their board to stick in your project. At the end of day, it's embedded Linux. All those wonderful tutorials and source repos can and will work on many other parts. There's nothing magical about the RPi core, and seriously really nothing magical about the hardware. Once you boot off of eMMC you'll never want to go back.