I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it’s all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I’ve got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    The two things to keep in mind with pine64 is that they ship hardware before the software is ready and because they are less popular there is less support.

    I like there hardware but its just something to keep in mind. The good news is that to my knowledge all of their single board computers can run regular linux.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Thanks for mentioning that. Iirc they use risc-v chips and linux supports it so it should work I guess. Will check it out.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        If you are unsure what to get definitely don’t get Risc-v as the user land software is not well supported.

        I would get a rockpro64

        • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I‘m hearing mixed things about risc-v. Its community supported. Do you have experience with the shortcomings?

          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            4·
            5 months ago

            The main shortcoming is that the software hasn’t matured yet. Its true you could use Debian or Gentoo and get a decent machine but I would hold off using it for anything important. You won’t find Risc-V images on docker hub and flathub only barely has arm support.