Armbian

Reader supplied reviews for Armbian Average rating 9.8 from 5 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: -- 24.5.123.1123.05.122.11.1 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: 23.05.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-11 Votes: 19 Tried both the Jammy verson and the Bookworm CLI version on an OrangePi 5. Both works flawlessy, the Debian-based Bookworm with slightly newer packages. After installing the Bookworm CLI-version, you end up as root in a shell. Run 'apt update', 'apt upgrade', 'apt install tasksel', 'tasksel'. Choose your DE and other options with the spacebar. Tab to 'Ok' and push 'Enter'. When all is finished, reboot with '/sbin/init 6'. I prefer to have my '/home'-directory on a seperate partition, on my OPi5 it is a NVmE-card. I add this to '/etc/fstab' while still in the root shell, before first reboot. Armbian uses UUID as partition identificator. Find it with 'blkid'. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.11.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-03-02 Votes: 20 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: 21 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 See all 5 reader reviews of Armbian...