• xuniL@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    If you don’t need any of the Pi specific features. Then buy a sbc from another brand. You get way more for your money and more features

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        10 months ago

        There’s a huge amount variety between the alternative sbc providers, but I’m general:

        • some are simply designed not to have various bits of hardware like the camera 22 pin connector.
        • some fail to conform to the pis pin out or footprint, so hats won’t be compatible
        • more commonly, documentation and support is so poor that extensive dev/Linux experience is required to get existing hardware to work

        All of this makes it difficult to utilize alternatives without conducting considerable research into many different ones.