Maybe I'm remember incorrectly but I was in middleschool when the RPI 1 came out and my dad got me one. There was tons of guides, tutorials, etc. when I got it

Maybe I'm remember incorrectly but I was in middleschool when the RPI 1 came out and my dad got me one. There was tons of guides, tutorials, etc. when I got it, which I think was close to launch? The os image was already made, tutorials on how to set it up, use ssh, setup a basic webserver, etc were all there at or very near launch. --- Software support is almost never an issue for sbc's, and because they run linux, there's a significant amount of resources of how to use them. Usually they fall apart because they don't have on-going software/firmware support the way RPI has always had a very well supported, and up-to-date linux image ready to flash. --- Although I will admit I think far more packages were compiled for arm back then compared to riscv packages today.