[quezzle]

Don’t know what you mean by havks to run Linux. Rpi has excellent Linux.

You’ll just find tons of things that don’t work when you use anything but rpi.

[snvzz]

Can you elaborate?

My experience has been the opposite of this.

RPIs have always been the hardest boards to get working.

[Legogris]

What'd that be? When it comes to actual software once hardware drivers, modules and bootloaders are sorted out, it's all the same ARM processors.