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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.