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The problem I personally have with OrangePi is that they maintain their own distro versions and do not upstream support as much as they could, either to kernel itself or to e.g. Raspbian.

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As a corollary, I think they'd be much more useful if there were direct interoperability of things like the GPIO pins. As far as I can tell, there could exist a compatibility shim for software using wiringpi and wiring etc. from the RPi world, but trying to set it up is a software/kernel nightmare for anyone not working professionally in this space.

I gave it a shot about a year ago using LLMs, but haven't revisited it since.

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