Not sure if it's half the work, since they did do the work at one point. And projects like armbian do the work to provide recent versions of debian/ubuntu that

Not sure if it's half the work, since they did do the work at one point. And projects like armbian do the work to provide recent versions of debian/ubuntu that work on the popular SBCs. Raspberry Pis also need some work to be supported, Raspberry Pi OS is just maintained by Rasperry Pi and not some third party. > Either way the reasoning "somebody one day might start doing what Raspberry Pi is already doing" is not as damning as you make it sound. I'd say "Plenty of companies do similar things".