• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What are some examples of pi specific features which other brands don’t support?

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      9 months ago

      There’s a huge amount variety between the alternative sbc providers, but I’m general:

      • some are simply designed not to have various bits of hardware like the camera 22 pin connector.
      • some fail to conform to the pis pin out or footprint, so hats won’t be compatible
      • more commonly, documentation and support is so poor that extensive dev/Linux experience is required to get existing hardware to work

      All of this makes it difficult to utilize alternatives without conducting considerable research into many different ones.