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Raspberry Pi becomes a public company(www.theregister.com)

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TOR-anon1@lemmy.world
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OrangePI

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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I had one and returned it. The hardware was good but the software was total ass

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nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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The official ones are a mess, but depending on your needs, you can use armbian. It supports orange pi boards, and is a nice and up to date distro.

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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My guess is that I tried 6 or more OSes on it. Like 2 would run at all, and in every case there kept being a lot of issues. It felt like it was hardware no one cares about supporting except one dude who made a version of Ubuntu for it. The whole damned experience was janky AF.

Got a RPi 5 and was able to get Arch running on it and it feels faster despite being objectively slower than the OPi

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Landless2029@lemmy.world
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That’s the biggest issue. Support.

Most of the success of the RPi is due to rasparian and community support.

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XTL@sopuli.xyz
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Never take software from a hardware company.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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I sank a ton of time trying to get several OSes running on it, including that one, with almost no luck. Out of the few that even did run, there were always piles of issues. You assumed I only meant the official OSes but I didn’t.

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RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world
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Out of ignorance I literally thought this was a joke. “Orange you glad I didn’t say raspberry?”

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