A quick search didn’t turn up any posts here about the Radxa Rock 5 in mini ITX FF, and I’ve half a mind to just order one and try it in some random PC case. I’d really like to try a cheap Arm desktop computer that isn’t a Pi or Pi clone SBC and that doesn’t cost $1500+ like Asrock+Ampere Altra kits. I saw Explaining Computers’ video on the Rock 5 ITX, seems intriguing but I didn’t really like the fact that it doesn’t appear to have UEFI but rather some phone-grade bootloader and “Roobi OS” with apparently limited choice of OSs to install.
I already own not one but two Arm-based laptops btw, a Macbook Pro M3 for real life and a Thinkpad X13S that I bought refurbished on eBay (surprisingly brand new & unused) for $500-ish U.S. basically for its 5G modem. Arm Macs are nice but not for tinkering, and I have a whole rant about the Thinkpad (TL;DR: it’s a phone running a custom Windows 11 image), so I’d love to try a more “open-ended” approach to arm.
If anyone’s had first-hand experience with this board I’d like to know what you’re using it for, with what Linux distro, and your overall impressions. TIA!
No first hand experience, but CNX-Software has done a couple of articles, and the comments section there will often report various findings that you won’t find in most YouTube videos.
One of the interesting things about that place is how the comments section on older articles will occasionally see renewed life when something interesting happens, such as increased functionality from driver updates. There’s also half a chance of getting an intelligent response if you ask a specific and detailed question.
The last link at the end of the article leads to a previous build with the same board. There should be fair amount to digest between the two articles and the comments.
Same here. I’m still waiting for an Arm device that I can use with standard arm64 Ubuntu or a Windows on Arm image from UUPDump, with standard UEFI, in a standard motherboard format and with standard RAM and peripheral slots/connectors.
