Armbian

Reader supplied reviews for Armbian Average rating 9.0 from 8 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. 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: -- 25.11.124.11.123.05.122.11.1 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: 24.11.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-02-25 Votes: 5 Amazing Distro. I put this distro on an sd card for a old android tv box to have another use for it besides using it for Emuelec. I can report that it run smoother on the android tv box (ATB for now on for the review. LOL) then it did on my Raspberry Pi 3b+. I'm guessing that's because of the 1gb more ram, double the cache (1mb vs 512 kb), and slightly higher CPU speed (1.512 vs 1.4) the ATB has. It's great having distros like Armbian for this kind of tech, either for older or newer. Keep up the great work! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.11.1 Rating: 7 Date: 2025-01-14 Votes: 0 I gave the Armbian version compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 a try and used it for several months. In general, it works well, it comes with an extensive collection of applications (too much for my taste) installed by default and it uses the XFCE as the desktop environment. An aspect of Armbian that I really dislike is that the configuration by default of the Firefox brower, insist on "hijacking" the startup home page, which points to the Armbian website. This cannot be easily changed by the user, because it's configured to ignore any change regarding the default startup page in the Firefox settings. Equally annoying, is the fact that it reinforce this behaivoiur whenever the Firefox package gets an update. I think it's obvious that this is something deliberate and I find it awful. Then, after several package updates, al of a sudden, the built it wifi chip of the Raspberry Pi, got undetected and stopped working!. I'm sure this wasn't a network configuration issue. The wifi chip just simply stopped being detected for some reason. I couldn't figure out why. May be, after one of the several package updates, something related got broken. To confirm that it wasn't a hardware problem, I tried the latest version available of the Raspbery Pi OS and I had the wifi working again!. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.11.1 Rating: 7 Date: 2025-01-06 Votes: 3 I used the Armbian Desktop version on a Raspberry Pi 4, for a few months. It run well, for the most part. It comes with quite a lengthy collection of software installed by default (a bit too much for my taste). I had two negative experiencies with Armbian: 1) I really dislike the fact that the Firefox browser that comes installed, insist on "hijacking" the default home page on startup and points to the Armbian website by default. What's more, it's configured in such a way that it enforce this configuration even if the user tries to change this (it will be ignored) from the Firefox settings!. It's not trivial for a novice user to modify this behaviour!. More annoying, is that even if the user manages to change it, a future package update will put the "hijacking" setting back on, every time!. 2) After a few package updates with "apt", the built-in wifi chip of the Raspberry Pi 4, suddenly, got undetected!. It wasn't a network configuration issue. It seems that for the Linux kernel, the wifi card was no longer present. I worried that, somehow, the built-in wifi chip was "dead", so I installed an image of the Raspberry Pi OS, instead. This way, I got wifi working again!. Maybe this was my fault, but I couldn't figure out what went wrong with Armbian on this. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of Armbian...