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I've had the same experience with non Raspberry Pi boards. They've become useless thanks to endlessly broken software and zero support. My rpi's have been useful for years and are still getting regular updates.

I think I too was drawn in by the performance claims made by those other manufacturers. I realized though that raspberry pi are very powerful computers. We just take the scale of modern computing for granted and our software is the real problem.

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Yup. It's RPi or nothing. It's the software that makes these valuable, not hardware specs. If I wanted to sell an ARM board I'd make it as Pi compatible as possible.

VisionFive2[0] is the way to go. They're much further in upstreaming in just half a year than Raspberry Pi in its long history.

RISC-V is inevitable.

0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

The problem is that Broadcom won't sell you the chips they use so you can't.

It's been gathering dust for a while now, but I had great success with my odroid C2. At one point I was running a matrix server with various bridges.

Even Raspberry Pi has struggled with GPU/HW acceleration, but at least its distro is maintained & updated.

The pi4's GPU at least supports OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.2 now. That's decent even if not powerful.

rpi4 is massively memory bandwidth starved. It can't even keep up with drawing the screen in general, much less run games.

VisionFive2's GPU (from Imatech) is supposedly at least 4x as fast.

> ...just take the scale of modern computing for granted and our software is the real problem.

I was thinking how I constantly find myself using GPT and Bard to prettify source code. Surely, not the most efficient use of compute.

Like some crude Parkinson's Law joke on more proficient algorithms.

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