I literally had to do solder repairs on this board to make it work.

…I’m pretty sure you -don’t- need to go that far – just made a quick search about it where the linux version was made available in 2018, and absolutely no one is mentioning the need to do solder repairs.

“Respectfully”, you are doing something wrong.

That happens because you are expecting it to work out of the box – the orange pi boards are meant for tinkerers. You’ve got to get your hands dirty to get it to work/game properly. Which can be as easy as a single bash script, however.

t. I use a bash script to automatically install all the necessary packages, commands, etc.

That’s armbian “bleeding edge”, minimal install with sway. Thankfully nowadays it “just werks” and does not require further/weird tweaks like masking the systemd-logind service, and so on, so forth.

Also… oh snaps

It does. I’ve bought the Windows version regardless so I can test the game on different machines.

-EDIT- …and just came to mind that some Linux games does not run at all on the opi 5 due to poor vulkan support – which might be the case of this game as well.

t. Bought the TMNT linux native brawler game (forgot its name now – TMNT something something shredder) and the game refused to run. Then, bought the windows version right after and the game ran smoothly.

Indeed. And it’ll get better when the vulkan support is properly added.

Also, that’s a very lovely drawing you’ve done there, great job. Very cute.

inb4 someone does this to end up saying minecraft is the perfect sandboxing program there is.

There is no such thing as a “gaming distro” – all GNU/Linux distros are equally good for gaming and any other task.

No, but we are talking about a STREAMING service. Which means, an ISP would have to be beyond terrible if it couldn’t provide decent streaming performance under an 10 Gibps connection. Which thankfully, is not the case even for Africans, Nigarians or any other “sub third-world country.”

…are you sure about that? 10 Gibps is about to be standardized all around the globe.

Reject AMD/NVidia

Embrace RISC-V.

(No, really. I’m unironically considering using an risc-v sbc as my next “main desktop pc” for the next few years, and relying (only) on cloud gaming for my dopamine needs.)