Comment by dev_l1x_be

23 days ago

I have this experience with most of these SBC-s. The new Radxa board boots 50% of the time. The only reliable SBCs I have are RPI3|4.

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zeendo  22 days ago

The Orion? God mine is so annoying. What a waste of money.

  • bschwindHN  22 days ago

    That's a shame to hear, I was looking forward to that one. So much hardware these days seems to be let down by bad software.

    I mean, I'm sure there's some bad hardware out there too, but it's usually the software that is letting things down more than the hardware.

    • zeendo  15 days ago

      Yeah. I mean, I still hold out hope that enough of the driver support will get mainlined or just rolled into some distro I want to use that I can use it for _something_ but right now it just sits unplugged on my desk. :(

      Last I checked BredOS was close to having a reasonable experience with it but I haven't had the time to poke at it again. Personally I'd prefer an Arch derivative like BredOS or FreeBSD. I don't really want to buy a GPU to put in it but it seems like that's my only option at the moment?

ekianjo  23 days ago

I don't have any Radxa model, but I have a bunch of SBCs from different makers and I have never seen a problem with boot working half of the time only.