What OS is it compatible with?
I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too
I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too
It supports a special version of debian and android. There are third party OSs too, but they don’t have good driver support.
The biggest issue is that tinkerboard uses Malİ GPU and its driver is propriatery.
I bought the tinkerboard as a media device hyped up about x265 capabilities and 192khz/24 bit audio. The x265 playback only worked with the bundled media player, which was buggy.
Software-wise I haven’t been happy, hardware-wise it was better than a raspberry pi.
Yes. In Fred Brooks Mythical Man-Month terms, the RPi is a software system product (with awful hardware), whereas OEM would-be competitors like this are just software (i.e. hobby projects). They might work for the authors most of the time, but they probably won't work for your use case without a large investment of time. Not even if you work in the same company.
Partial exception made for Armbian supported boards here. They are getting part of the way to RPi in terms of system quality on much more limited resources. (Of course both RPi and Armbian depend on the huge amount of work embodied in Debian.)
The software and documentation ecosystem is more important than the hardware, in the end.
Trying to get vid acceleration running involved an endless rabbithole of sketchy binary blobs posted in random forums. Not what I had in mind when I thought "tinker"
This complaint seems to come up every time a non-Pi SBC is discussed
Take a look at the number of boards supported by Armbian and DietPi for example.