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I'm excited to install retropie for the x time and then never ever touch it until the next iteration.
Are you me?
Um... it's 2023 and there are other boards alongside the rpi, plus you can do that by spending much less -- $10 dollars, to be more precise. With decent performance and all, with the power draw at 3W and under!
Could you share some examples? I'm completely out of the loop...all I use my rpi for is emulation and an emby server...if there's better stuff out there for that, that is sub 10W, I'm all ears!
Orange pi zero 3. It delivers perfect PS1 emulation plus can do 4k streaming just fine. Linux support is still off however, but its 100% viable for retrogaming, web browsing and even cloud gaming (XCloud). All that with the power draw (barely) scratching the 3W mark. The only downside is that you are forced to use Android (again, for the time being.)
t. Got a Opi zero 3 1GiB, waiting for Armbian to deliver a proper version of their OS so I can play with it a bit more.
The problem is the software. Distros are best optimized for Pi.
That used to be a problem way back. Right now is a whole different story. The orangepi 5 plus (which is the cheapest yet the "best" sbc as of now) has decent support and can even emulate nintendo switch (one of the most demanding nintendo videogames as of now) just fine. Thus, the distro itself has nothing to do with the optimization -- all distros are linux/gu at heart.
I'd disagree with that. Hardware acceleration and specific optimizations for the various chips are important. This is why some of these little machines can do youtube properly and others (most of them actually) can't. That's a big decision point for me as to what I should buy. OrangePi and some others are faster and more feature rich than pi, but their software is not as well thought of.
...which has nothing to do with the distro as you've emphasized earlier. And like I said previously, its on par with the other boards in a way its even superior than the rest.