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Two words: software support.
by vardump 3y ago
Two words: software support.
- ltbarcly3 3y agoWhat software are you concerned about? I'm running Debian and I can apt-install anything in the arm repositories, which is basically everything. Neither the RP5 nor the rk3588 used on the Orange Pi have everything supported in mainline kernels, but in a year or so both probably will.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoOS support, yes; the ARM ecosystem is overall a trash fire in terms of being able to use mainline Linux. Even Pis don't actually have a good track record with actual mainline Linux, but they're popular enough that their downstream patches are actually maintained so you can keep using current kernels; most boards get whatever buggy kernel the vendor drops when it ships and then nothing. Now AIUI Orange Pis do actually have a decent track record for upstream kernel support? So that might be fine in this case, but I deeply sympathize with people not wanting to figure it out and just going with the name brand that they know will get supported.
- forty 3y agoI have one orange pi board where I messed a bit with the OS/kernel. I think the kernel patches where copy of a competitor similar board with the same SoC (if I remember correctly a friendlyelec board) where the fact that it was copy pasting showed in places where they forgot to replace the name of the board...
- ltbarcly3 3y agohttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orange-Pi-5-DT-Mainline-Patche... I'm hopeful the effort to get the rk3588 fully supported in the kernel will be successful. I think you can already get it working with a vanilla kernel but you lose hdmi. Far from ideal but great progress so far.