Power usage aside, I'd take the simplicity of a mainline kernel and distro over the mystery-meat backported patch chaos of the faux-5.x RockChip kernel that's really a Frankenstein 2.6 codebase. Yes, I know they're "working on" mainline integration but I can't ship promises. That's why I'm still using Raspberry Pi boards, as well! Don't fall for the Chinese SoC scam.
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Power usage aside, I'd take the simplicity of a mainline kernel and distro over the mystery-meat backported patch chaos of the faux-5.x RockChip kernel that's really a Frankenstein 2.6 codebase. Yes, I know they're "working on" mainline integration but I can't ship promises. That's why I'm still using Raspberry Pi boards, as well! Don't fall for the Chinese SoC scam.