As strange as it sounds, network effects and popularity are massive factors in the SBC scene. If you have a semi-recent RaspberryPi, chances are any SBC-adjacent project will have 1st class support for your board.
This is what stops me from trying other SBCs. I did try the original ASUS Tinker Board, which seemed to be a nice upgrade relative to the then current RaspberryPi 3B which had awful Ethernet speeds.
A shame the raspberries are either super tiny (and thus lacking, mostly ports) or trying to be bigger faster moar-all style. I get there is a market for 8GB RAM PIs but I just miss the “lots of ports” & enough RAM to run a desktop ones I guess.
As strange as it sounds, network effects and popularity are massive factors in the SBC scene. If you have a semi-recent RaspberryPi, chances are any SBC-adjacent project will have 1st class support for your board.
This is what stops me from trying other SBCs. I did try the original ASUS Tinker Board, which seemed to be a nice upgrade relative to the then current RaspberryPi 3B which had awful Ethernet speeds.
Yes, I learned that the hard way 😁
A shame the raspberries are either super tiny (and thus lacking, mostly ports) or trying to be bigger faster moar-all style. I get there is a market for 8GB RAM PIs but I just miss the “lots of ports” & enough RAM to run a desktop ones I guess.