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Additionally, the switch is a hop, skip, and a jump away from being the same hardware as a Tegra Shield that the L4T images initially targeted. Like even down to the same exact model of DRAM chips which should have been more of a commodity and a reflection of the manufacturer's vendor relationships.

It's as close to an officially supported Linux distro for Nintendo hardware as we've ever gotten.

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> It's as close to an officially supported Linux distro for Nintendo hardware as we've ever gotten.

To be fair, Linux on the Wii was also quite good: I remember running Debian 5 Lenny on my Wii many years ago, and it seemed to be "just" a different kernel with drivers for the Wii hardware but with the normal userspace / repos. With an USB mouse and keyboard this was even somewhat usable, even with X11 and some lightweight window manager. Of course RAM was quite limited with only 80MB in total, but still. It definitely wasn't as hacky or limited as DSLinux.

It wasn't supported by those who designed most of the circuit board though.

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