Comment by squarefoot

17 days ago

I've moved my media players and servers to mini PCs and unlocked Chromeboxes and couldn't be more happy. Performance is on another planet compared to the RPi. Mini PCs however can't be used when one needs a small board with lots of gpios, but there's a lot of (often cheaper and faster) competition in that field as well. Please, keep in mind that the usual story "other boards don't have decent Linux support/community" is simply not true. Here are Armbian and DietPi pages where you can find images with mainline support for a lot of common boards, including forums. Images supplied by the board manufacturer should rather be intended for quick testing only as you can't count on their support; just ignore them and go straight to Armbian or DietPi sites, and consider contributing for their hard work.