That used to be a problem way back. Right now is a whole different story. The orangepi 5 plus (which is the cheapest yet the “best” sbc as of now) has decent support and can even emulate nintendo switch (one of the most demanding nintendo videogames as of now) just fine. Thus, the distro itself has nothing to do with the optimization – all distros are linux/gu at heart.
I’d disagree with that. Hardware acceleration and specific optimizations for the various chips are important. This is why some of these little machines can do youtube properly and others (most of them actually) can’t. That’s a big decision point for me as to what I should buy. OrangePi and some others are faster and more feature rich than pi, but their software is not as well thought of.
Hardware acceleration and specific optimizations for the various chips are important.
…which has nothing to do with the distro as you’ve emphasized earlier. And like I said previously, its on par with the other boards in a way its even superior than the rest.
The problem is the software. Distros are best optimized for Pi.
That used to be a problem way back. Right now is a whole different story. The orangepi 5 plus (which is the cheapest yet the “best” sbc as of now) has decent support and can even emulate nintendo switch (one of the most demanding nintendo videogames as of now) just fine. Thus, the distro itself has nothing to do with the optimization – all distros are linux/gu at heart.
I’d disagree with that. Hardware acceleration and specific optimizations for the various chips are important. This is why some of these little machines can do youtube properly and others (most of them actually) can’t. That’s a big decision point for me as to what I should buy. OrangePi and some others are faster and more feature rich than pi, but their software is not as well thought of.
…which has nothing to do with the distro as you’ve emphasized earlier. And like I said previously, its on par with the other boards in a way its even superior than the rest.