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It's the most 'usable' desktop I've seen yet from an ARM SBC. So does the 4.4 stuff with Mali blobs but that also supports hardware encoding/decoding of various video codecs. The 5.x/Mesa stuff is about as open as you're going to get with ARM SBCs and supports hardware acceleration up to 4K. Generally speaking you get excellent hardware support (including display graphics) with either the 'vendor supported' 4.4 series kernels with Mali blobs OR 5.x mainline whatever and recent Mesa. The RK3399 series boards are seriously overlooked. I not an expert in the entire SBC market, but I'm doubt many other boards have community support for that many different OSs. Also other stuff like Recalbox, batocera, OpenMediaVault, ChromiumOS, or Android. I just checked, as of writing this the are builds for (both desktop & minimal) Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, CentOS, Manjaro, Armbian debian/ubuntu, DietPi. There are lots of accessories, and tons of OS options with an easy installer. If you get a 4GB board, a power supply, and an SATA interface you'd be all in for ~$103 before shipping. I think this type of setup is exactly what you're looking for. But I plan on getting an NVMe interface in the future, and maybe the metal desktop casing. I've not set mine up like this yet, as I've not been doing much with my board lately except running pi-hole.

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With this setup you will get full performance from your drive, instead of having to rely on a USB connection on raspberry pi & others. They have PCI-e slots, so the SSD interface cards plug into the board through them. I got one a while back, I was looking for something more powerful than a Raspberry pi. I think these RockPro64 boards are highly underrated. I think there is an awesome setup that many are overlooking! With a RockPro64 board, you can configure it to use SSD's, both SATA & NVMe! I have had one for a couple years and I'm super happy with it!

A brand new board with 4GB RAM, power supply, and SSD PCI-e interface will run you only around $100 before shipping.

Especially when you consider the flexibility, available attachments & accessories, and wide range of use cases and OS options. The RockPro64 is highly underrated in my opinion.

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They are simple to install in a few clicks, with the official Pine64 installer. And the boards have a huge number of community supported OS builds available. That way you get full performance from your SSD, versus a USB connection. These boards have PCI-e slots and very cheap SATA & NVMe attachments. I think the best alternative, while staying in the SBC realm, is a RockPro64 by Pine64. Folks, the OP was asking for alternatives to Raspberry Pi, but everyone keeps saying just use Raspberry Pi with a USB hard drive or get some obscure second hand hardware.

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