Have you tried calling your neighbor out and asking him? “Hey! Can I take your shelf?”. Takes like three seconds to sort this out.

It can be (pretty much) any distro you want – just make a minimal install, install the stuff you want, pull config files from your github and throw em in $HOME, that’s it.

Yep. Since a while ago.

Git hype for Crysis running on the rpi 5!

Nah, they are doing you a favor.

As long as its power draw is stupidly low yet has decent performance…? I’m game.

“What, you don’t like retro yet proper gaming on a 1W device?”

– Me, if I were that lone guy holding a controller

I tried it once and gave up after realizing the necessary mental gymnastics to do simple things like installing something.

Eh, I just set $ROOTFS to ro and my $HOME to rw.

I’m forced to use Brave or else my potato has a heart attack – what am I?

Good ol’ Windows 69. :^)

For the sake of “saving” your post (even as someone who has no idea how nextcloud works)… I made a quick search regarding nextcloud and the nextcloud docs says it needs a minimum of 128MiB ram per process while they recommend 512MiB which doesn’t seem that much of a resource beast at all…? It COULD work, but not as good as your typical nextcloud setup with over 10 processes or something of the sort. Probably a headless/bare metal setup with dietpi, I guess?

Then again, as I said previously… this is a totally ignorant take on saving your post, but eh… who on earth would want to run nextcloud with less than 10 processes anyways? So I’m gonna go with “Yeah it does, but you’ll (eventually) want to switch to a better sbc later on.”

My orange pi zero 3 hosting nextdns via docker:

(It’s like nothing is happening at all – under 1W power draw go brrr)

Power Consumption: Normal: 1.2W(12V/100mA)，Max: 6W(12V/500mA)，Min: 0.096W(12V/8mA)

That looks waaay too good to be true.

It has the same performance compared to the Orange pi zero 3, but eh… I’ll wait some reviews about it first.

While the new model has the same octa-core processor as the original, it brings speedier memory, a couple of upgraded ports, and a total of three M.2 connectors

So…nothing “really new” and for a few specific users.

Is it me or the Orange pi 5, Orange pi 5 Pro and the Orange pi 5 Max are (technically) the same?

Looks promising. Hope it has a power draw close to the rpi 4 one.

To use (and enjoy) Linux properly, you’ve got to “unlearn” several things including the bad habit of expect everything to “just werk”. If you are expecting to “double click your cares away” on Linux, then it’s (very) likely you’ll be disappointed.

With that aside, your best bet is to go for Linux Mint and not Arch Linux.

Convenience > performance all day errday so the rpi 5 takes the cake.