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<h2>Credits</h2>
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The drama surrounding this board is ridiculous. Is it a great board? Not really. It also costs like $7 on Amazon. Is it a good board for $7? Yes it is, especially in 2022 when Pis are routinely over $100.<br><br>
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This board honestly isn't more broken than any other boards were at release. It just never got support and it was almost right from the start. It never received support from Armbian and Orange Pi has never supported it either (I mean most of the fixes in this were submitted to their official repository years ago with no response). There are much more popular and widely used boards with much more serious hardware defects that are supported by both Armbian and Orange Pi (as they're well aware). It's hard to say why everyone's jimmies were so rustled but from what I can tell it's mostly groupthink and political nonsense that has nothing to do with how defective the board actually is.<br><br>
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This board honestly isn't more broken than any other boards were at release. It just never got support and it was almost right from the start. It never received support from Armbian and Orange Pi has never supported it either (I mean most of the fixes in this were submitted to their official repository years ago with no response). There are much more popular and widely used boards with much more serious hardware defects that are supported by both Armbian and Orange Pi (as they're well aware).<br><br>
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It's hard to say why everyone's jimmies were so rustled but from what I can tell it's mostly groupthink and political nonsense that has nothing to do with how defective the board actually is. There were only 2 Pull Requests to even integrate from Orange Pi's repository as well as the USB issue. Those are pretty much the only known issues with the board other than the flaky WiFI. That is honestly a better track record than definitely most of Orange Pi's other boards and most boards in general. Again, as someone who has been working with SBCs for nearly a decade and still has their Raspberry Pi 1 Model B's to prove it, what are you guys talking about? This board is too toxic to touch with a flaky WiFI and some easily resolved kernel driver issues? What?<br><br>
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The lack of support is real though and has real consequences. What hope is there then? The community basically. This image is just a compilation of fixes from people who dreamed of something better for the board and submitted PRs or fixes around the internet as well as patching Orange Pi's imaging tool to produce images that aren't literally 5 years outdated (although the kernel still is).<br><br>
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Is it enough? You'll have to judge for yourself if it's enough but it is enough to make this a decent headless Bullseye board with one working high speed USB 2.0 port. The original ones really weren't which is why this was born.<br><br>
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