• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      i mean linux is linux if its only booting up to display video or a simple interaction panel

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      It’s probably irrelevant for the 1-executable no WAN use case, but the sheer price they are paying for even a dirt cheap board that can run the full gnome environment vs…like, a raspberry pi…blows the mind.

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        I’m running a full version of Ubuntu on my Orange Pi 5 Plus, which is roughly the same as a Raspberry Pi 5 and it runs fine, so that thing could easilly be hardware in same class of power as a Raspberry Pi 5 or entry level intel Mini-PC and run Ubuntu.

        That said, it would still be an SBC that costs about $120.

        In my experience, a $40 SBC can’t run more than Armbian and would be better off with a lightweight distro running a lighter window manager.