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@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org You just don't know how to strike the right balance with devices like this. I think it's pure luck. Efika MX by Genesi came out earlier than Pi and AFAIR had better hardware. As far as community support goes, it failed. There were a dozen of supported distros, but as soon as official support vaned no one did a thing with it. I've had Toshiba AC100 before that. It wasn't a board computer, but a complete ARM-based nettop. It also failed — it had one (!) compatible Ubuntu release.
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org The community usually picks up the most inexpensive solution, Efika MX was pricey for its time (around €500), the other might have been that it was to early to hit this market. Those were the times when ARM hard float and soft float were still a thing and even the concept of device tree as a level of abstraction for the kernel wasn't there yet.