<story><title>Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B</title><url>https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-vs-orange-pi-5-plus-vs-rock-5-model-b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesy0ung</author><text>They might be good performance wise, but if you watch the Jeff Geerling video he mentions in the post, it will show you how much trouble he has with it. Custom distros with broken repos, non mainlined outdated kernels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phamilton4</author><text>Having owned many raspberry pis, a handful of rock pis (4A, 4B, Zero and S), Mango Pis, Khadas VIM4 and other SBCs (I have a problem haha)... I can say without a doubt the two shining stars the Raspberry Pi has are their distro&amp;#x2F;software and general ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;Just upgrading and dealing with downloading&amp;#x2F;upgrading the Raspberry Pi is a dream compared to the Rock Pis. The Khadas is a little better, but still I have a hard time upgrading it and sometimes certain images just won&amp;#x27;t even work from the company. Sometimes when trying to upgrade Rock Pis with eMMC you will find 2 or three different ways to install the freaking image on their own wikis.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also the &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; aspect for me, I really don&amp;#x27;t trust some of these distros (maybe I shouldn&amp;#x27;t worry??). A random image someone put on their website with broken instructions and messed up repos&amp;#x2F;kernels doesn&amp;#x27;t exactly instill confidence to me.&lt;p&gt;I will say the one GREAT thing from Rock Pi is their rock pi x. But it has an x86 processor and I can just install any distro. I wish they were easier to purchase and had more memory!!!</text></comment>
<story><title>Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Orange Pi 5 Plus vs. Rock 5 Model B</title><url>https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-vs-orange-pi-5-plus-vs-rock-5-model-b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesy0ung</author><text>They might be good performance wise, but if you watch the Jeff Geerling video he mentions in the post, it will show you how much trouble he has with it. Custom distros with broken repos, non mainlined outdated kernels.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThatPlayer</author><text>Yeah, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t recommend one that doesn&amp;#x27;t have mainline kernels. But Pine64 does good work on getting stuff upstreamed. The RK3399 used in the PinePhone Pro, the Orange Pi 4, Rock 4, and other boards has proper mainline support. I&amp;#x27;m also a fan of the open sourced GPU drivers for that SoC done by the panfrost team that has desktop OpenGL support (not just the ES stuff).&lt;p&gt;Pine64&amp;#x27;s QuartzPro64 board uses the same RK3588 in the Orange Pi 5 Plus and Rock 5B, and they&amp;#x27;re working on upstreaming support for that: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.pine64.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;QuartzPro64_Development#Upstreaming_Status&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.pine64.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;QuartzPro64_Development#Upstrea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>