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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Got it. So except the OS, software is going to be pretty tough. Would that mean installing from source still works or not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ok. Thanks. :)