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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
I have this experience with most of these SBC-s. The new Radxa board boots 50% of the time. The only reliable SBCs I have are RPI3|4.

>>dev_l1+851
The Orion? God mine is so annoying. What a waste of money.

>>zeendo+Lj3
That's a shame to hear, I was looking forward to that one. So much hardware these days seems to be let down by bad software.

I mean, I'm sure there's some bad hardware out there too, but it's usually the software that is letting things down more than the hardware.

>>bschwi+s44
Yeah. I mean, I still hold out hope that enough of the driver support will get mainlined or just rolled into some distro I want to use that I can use it for _something_ but right now it just sits unplugged on my desk. :(

Last I checked BredOS was close to having a reasonable experience with it but I haven't had the time to poke at it again. Personally I'd prefer an Arch derivative like BredOS or FreeBSD. I don't really want to buy a GPU to put in it but it seems like that's my only option at the moment?