The rk3588 is a nice chip, but support just isn't there yet if you want to do anything with the GPU. The "Panthor" GPU driver, which is the FOSS driver which supports its GPU, was just merged in to Linux and mesa this month[1] (yay!) which means you're probably gonna have to build your own kernel if you want it.

The old mali proprietary driver is borderline unusable on anything remotely modern, only really working on Linux 5.10 and special X11 builds with legacy features re-enabled.

It's crazy that the rk3588 has been on the market for many years at this point and is just now starting to be usable on Linux, but it's exciting that things are taking shape.

[1] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rele...

This should be the central lesson learned from the Raspberry Pi by open-source projects.

There will be faster, there will be smaller, there will be cheaper. But if the user can go on the web and find the _exact_ thing they're looking to do spelled out, they'll buy that product, every time.