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Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Good specs, but the rpi still has the absolute big advantage of it's vast field of available turnkey software.
There is a big difference between "it works out of the box" and "it works so-so after a lot of fiddling, and I still don't know why".
Also GPU drivers.
If you're mad at NVidia for their closed-source drivers, then remember that ARM seldom makes their Linux drivers available for free, so you have to either have to deal with absolutely no GPU driver while the CPU does the graphics rendering (might not be a big deal on a NAS though), or with open source drivers that are less capable than the Nouveau drivers and even fiddlier to install. The ARM Mali driver issue is so bad I was legit thinking on a solution to run the Android binary blobs (which at least are available by ripping them off from the Android kernel) on regular Linux, a lot of function call redirects would likely take care of that issue.
I've got one of those cheap Rockchip rk322x TV boxes and it took me fucking literal hours to get the Mali driver working and the performance, while noticeably better, was still way worse than if I ran it's stock Android image on it.
Depends on your use-case. If you want to use GPIO and other low level features, yes the Pi is faster to get going, if you're just using ir for a NAS/storage then a board like that will work out of the box.
At which point you're better off with a mini pc.
I totally agree with you there. https://lemmy.world/comment/5500098:
I even went further on GPIOs and low level electronics here https://lemmy.world/comment/5500638:
This is the problem I see with these "high end pi" systems. The benefit of the RPI is low-cost and small form factor along with the GPIO.
When you start to get too expensive you compete with more capable systems in the same price range.
Well, it always depends on the use case. And if you think over the use case, maybe other solutions might even be better.