Buying one of these Pi knockoffs taught me one thing, software support is the key to raspberry pi’s success.

Whenever I would have a problem, and it was more often than not, I would search for a solution and come across something that worked for rpi that I could try to port across.

Double the hardware spec matters little if you can’t get the software to even compile

> Double the hardware spec matters little if you can’t get the software to even compile

You can get any software to compile on this SBC. On the Raspberry Pi platform you usually don't need to compile anything.