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If by "software support" you mean "people provide ready-made SD card images with project X already installed", then yes, no alternative to the Pi. If you mean
by detaro 3y ago
If by "software support" you mean "people provide ready-made SD card images with project X already installed", then yes, no alternative to the Pi.
If you mean "gives me a standard linux distro I can install software on that can talk to the network and maybe show a UI on a screen", pretty much anything works (and a lot of things people do with Pis are just that - running things like network-wide adblockers, 3D printer servers, small python scripts for whatever).
If it's somewhere in between, it again depends. E.g. if I wanted a MIPI camera, I'd probably track down a RPi and use that unless I could find someone documenting a precise setup on something else.
- tjoff 3y agoIf step 1 is to spend 30 hours researching the state of linux for each of the alternatives that makes them dead on arrival and a complete waste of time and money in my mind.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoWhat I mean is "is this thing either running mainline linux or supported well enough that I'll still be getting kernel updates in 5 years".