Armbian

Reader supplied reviews for Armbian Average rating 9.8 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on Armbian? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 23.05.122.11.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 22.11.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-03-02 Votes: 16 It was the newest 23.02.02 version I downloaded for a normal 64 bit Intel/AMD PC. It came as a 2 GB img file which inflated to 9 GB+ on a USB stick using Belena Etcher. It doesn't use persistence, but I did find an option to save the session and it seems to work fine. Bad start as I noticed the spinning dotted circle favoured by Microsoft as it loaded - please drop that unnecessary nod to Windows, you can do better and are risking a possible lawsuit too. Not the quickest loader, but that may be down to the USB2 stick I used and it does run at an acceptable speed once it's eventually loaded. Comes with Google Chrome (and Firefox for all you purists) along with a fairly sensible set of common programs without appearing too bloated. I know it's not really meant for 'normal' PC's but it does a good job as a portable OS and barely uses 1/2 a GB of RAM to boot to the desktop. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.08.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2022-09-18 Votes: 14 i used this distribution on my Orange Pi PC for more than 3 years, while there was no other distributions supporting the board officially. this was the best experience, for me on using GNU\Linux in 12 years. I am moving to Arch-Linux but before that it was good enough that i searched for X86_64 version of this distribution for my AMD PC. it is very satisfying and pleasing to use. in other word it is just Awesome. butt i wish there was a i3wm desktop version of it, specially for boards with 1GB RAM Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.05.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2022-06-09 Votes: 14 It is like a 'Swiss Army knife' for Single Board Computers because it supports a lot of boards. I bet that this distro will go up in Dstrowatch tops. I have it installed on Asus Tinker Board ( armhf ) with a Samsung TV display . internet from my phone . The keyboard I used is a mini keyboard with combo pad with remote connection. The sound worked with the TV and also connected with my Huawei CM510 using the bluetooth. No firmware needed. Installation is easy. update same . based on Debian. Kudos to developers ! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of Armbian...