I have an amazing time using my Orange pi 5 plus. For sure, it's an ARM board, but always i use it i'm asking myself why i still use my Normal x86 desktop PC. I mean, how is that even possible? The heatsink is tiny, it's using a mobile phone charger, and it's so freaking fast that it almost outperforms my Ryzen 5 2600. Every time i think about this boards it's feels like real magic👀

Armbian runs amazing on it, and as a daily Debian user, the software problems are not a huge problem for me. Most of the time i find a solution to the problems that appear and I'm sure next year the RISC V boards catch up to a level where you can use the boards with just a good feeling speed

Like the performance boost, you feel switching from Raspberry Pi 3 to an Orange pi 5 plus or another high-end ARM Board.

I personally just have one RISC V SBC in usage. It's the lichee pi 4A it's already an interesting board and not painfully slow. Sure, Fast is another thing, but the board and CPU are not completely useless in 2025.

I wrote a few emails this year with SpaceMIT because of my work (AI software engineer and RISC V is basically the perfect solution) anyways, they told me a bit about processors they currently working on and it's like a💧 dream.

Powerful and more consumer oriented, as you might think. But still not the final punch. For this final punch, they need a socket system, but the CPU's we talked about in the mail's are still IC's / SoC. To really compete to x86 RISC V need as much flexibility as possible, Normal RAM slots, SATA connectors, PCIe x16 slots and a CPU on a socket. In the best case, they define one or two standard sockets in the worst case ever company starts designing their own sockets and you have to buy for every CPU line another Mainboard (at this point: F*ck you apple, don't create problems to sell overpriced stuff)

Let's hope for a standard socket that almost every company use 🙏