> As you can see, the Ubuntu 24.04 distro is missing from the list, and this is a shame, since this is a board released late 2024. I contacted OrangePi and they mentioned that they would eventually release a 24.04 version, but there was no clear timeline for that.

> Sadly, but this was almost expected, there does not seem to be any kind of GPU support in the version that I have chosen. A quick check with glxgears confirms that there is just a software pipe for rendering.

Stuff like this is why people keep picking Raspberry Pi. There's tons and tons of alternative SBCs that have better price to performance on paper, but the software support is always awful. You're always limited to a few distro images released by the SBC vendor, and there's no effort spent by them on getting everything working. This product came out in December 2024, and they STILL don't have images with working GPU acceleration.

>There's tons and tons of alternative SBCs that have better price to performance on paper, but the software support is always awful.

And it is kind of funny, when hardware manufacturers will release a board and will then go great lengths of bending whole distros for the board, instead of just using UBoot which already has UEFI and ACPI layers, loading it permanently on the board into some SPI flash and then let it boot as a normal PC...

The support for GPU acceleration is there in the mainline kernel and in Mesa, it is down to the distribution including older versions.