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>>ekianj+(OP)
My experience with the OrangePi 4 LTS has been poor, and I'm unwilling to purchase more of their hardware. Mine is now running Armbian because I didn't care for the instability, or for the Chinese repos.

They seem uninterested in trying to get their hardware supported by submitting their patches for inclusion in the Linux kernel, and popular distros. Instead, you have to trust their repos (based in PRC).

>>anonym+qH
"Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. It seemed like it was on the free plan too, it often didn't work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit.

>>eyegor+251
It's always better than a link in the sticky post on the manufacturer's phpbb forum. I bought some audio equipment directly from a Chinese company, and everything look like a hobbies/student project.

>>Berett+C61
Keep in mind that for a lot of Chinese companies, it's difficult to (legally) access some outside resources.

My company hosts our docker images on quay.io and docker hub, but we also have a tarball of images that we post to our Github releases. Recently our release tooling had a glitch and didn't upload the tarballs, and we very quickly got Github issues opened about it from a user who isn't able to access either docker registry and has to download the tarball from Github instead.

It doesn't surprise me that a lot of these companies have the same "release process" as Wii U homebrew utilities, since I can imagine there's not a lot of options unless you're pretty big and well-experienced (and fluent in English).