Comment on Raspberry Pi 5: available now!
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh! Oh. Nevermind. Welp. Back to Orange Pi. At least they’re available.
Comment on Raspberry Pi 5: available now!
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh! Oh. Nevermind. Welp. Back to Orange Pi. At least they’re available.
aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They work pretty well. The upside is they are always available. The downside is less support for software like the pi foundation has invested into. But they do a great job as a Linux board and if you use a well supported distro, you should be fine.
At one point, we had to do a project with 40ish of these things. Worked out well and we couldn’t get a pi, because since 2019 they are basically impossible to order in number.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s an Armbian distro. Down side is you can’t install Pi images for specific things, you need to build them manually, but other than that no real issues. Also you can run Android (that was trickier to setup as it needs a windows only tool to flash it to the SD card.
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What windows-only tool are you referring to?
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Phoenix card from their official tools. It’s apparently the only flasher that can properly flash android to TF card.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
At the beginning, they were behind raspberry pis, but the newer models are so nice, that I wouldn’t be surprised if they soon start leading on the innovation in the niche.
Software support has been improving too. You can install armbian just fine, and they have been working on their own official distro. Community support is still minimal, but slowly growing.