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by lenerdenator 822 days ago
> They still lack compared to Pi's support though.

This should be the central lesson learned from the Raspberry Pi by open-source projects.

There will be faster, there will be smaller, there will be cheaper. But if the user can go on the web and find the _exact_ thing they're looking to do spelled out, they'll buy that product, every time.

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Now imagine if RPi applied their magic to slightly newer hardware so there was no need to mess around with poorly-supported Allwinner/Rockchip/Mediatek boards.
or if they actually open sourced anything... or if you could buy the broadcom chips directly, or or or