Arrggghhh:
> There are other affordable alternatives out there where developers have given more consideration to those issues.
Like what?
> There are other affordable alternatives out there where developers have given more consideration to those issues.
Like what?
If heard good things about the Beaglebones, but never used them myself.
I‘m not a fan of the Odroid board, because they require custom Linux or Android and at some point those are not updated any more.
Yes it's just 2 users but I also shared folders with people who up- and download stuff.
The web interface is responsive enough and the weak end when downloading stuff from it is my internet connection (upload sucks).
I agree that it's a good idea though ;-) I've ordered a successor with some serious power and SSD for the Pi (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-scooter-computer) to get more users to work with it and also try the NextCloud Talk feature.
Also heard good things about the beaglebones.
I hope your storage is not an SD Card though, because if that's the case you are tempting fate ;-)
Thank you very much for the "Scooter Computer" link! I had seen those off-brand x86 boxes on Alibaba and I wanted to get a couple for a project but didn't know where to start from, that article by Atwood is a good start.
I know its all trade offs, but for its price, there isn't really anything to beat the pi.
As I said, trade offs
It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose.
> Beaglebone
I love this SBC but it is seriously underpowered than RPi in 2019. It focus more on real-time embedded system performance and rapid hardware prototyping.
The RPi has it's own specialties, especially the price. For 40USD (give or take) you get a system: - which might be running proprietary FW but still has it documented and allows you to run any OS you can imagine; - is (partly) manufactured in Europe!; - has an actual company/community behind which is caring for the product/itself way more than the "let's make some-money from the rich DIY-guys in EU/US"-* droid-company
> It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose.
It's definitely more affordable than those ipads units bought by some schools.
But then thats a pretty weak argument against any board. the raspberry pi foundation are a charity, they spend virtually all their profits on education.
Could some of them still have similar issues? Possible, but the issues he describes have been there for a while on different Raspberry models.
The only decent thing to come out of the Raspberry project after the original model was the Zero.
This is just such a massively dumb comment.
The stuff coming from the group is all pretty good and relatively well priced. This includes the various upgrades and different form factors. It has some shortcomings as described; literally every other SBC also has some shortcomings too. Like the Orange Pi you mention, which might as well be alien technology given the quality of the documentation and code required to get it running.
Also, with "relatively well priced" do you mean "overpriced"? And with documentation you mean the stuff the users wrote on the forum (ok, they did at least try, but the real useful stuff is from the forum)?
Come on, while I realize that other SBCs have a lot of issues too, let's not forget that every iteration of the Raspberry had its issues, some of them being the usual issues found in boards from other vendors too.
If you need an example of a well built board, well documented and with amazing price, check out the CHIP from the now defunct NextThing Co. Best SBC I've ever had, for a fraction of the cost of a Raspberry.
And if you need something that you can still buy, look into the Asus Tinkerboard. Yep, it costs more but it feels like alien technology that works compared to the raspberry 3F+ (... or was it the 3D-? Hard to tell, when they are a rehash of the same stuff, even worse than the Arduino).