Let's say the world has been extra certain to bring me IRL problems 😄, as far as a bootloader being present, the Libre Computer Tritium boards are as barebones as can be possible, so any issues should be shared across any/all other H5 boards and really not board specific.

@Dominik Wójt Hey, I've picked up my mxq box again looking to put a newer OS on it. It seems the image you provided works with HDMI. Thanks! However, if I build it from the normal armbian repo it does not work. Any chance you can share what changes you made?

after struggling to make keyboard in french as locale is not taken account sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration sudo systemmctl restart console-setup.service setupcon <-- winner Screenshot taken with screengrab , How am I supposed to live without you screengrab the music..

I loose the HDMI signal and screen get black because startx (main launcher script to enter Xorg!) from xinit package has been forgotten to be installed. After doing the magic combination CTRL+ALT+F1/F2 and login in console mode, this will fix the issue and open the gates of cinnamon sudo apt install xinit Enjoy , SoSie

I'll provide some background on what you are experiencing. 6.1 is the vendor kernel. This is what comes from rockchip and is a hacked together set of code that they release to board builders. Armbian doesn't have really any interest in maintaining this code base. 6.12 is mainline Linux directly from kernel.org with some additional.patches applied. It often tales years for the open source community to get new CPU variants incorporated into the mainline kernel code base, as the vendors (rockchip and OrangePi in this case) don't generally contribute. So 6.12 is actually far behind in feature support for your board. The edge kernel, 6 16 would be better. But if you want a feature complete kernel.for your board, the 6.1 vendor kernel is best. If you want security updates but can deal with lack of some features, then the edge kernel should be your choice (at least until early next year when Armbian current moves to the next Linux LTS release). Also, from the perspective of best boards under Armbian, you probably are better off with Armbian supported boards, not a community supported board which by definition doesn't have anyone maintaining it. Final note, is that Orange Pi as a company does nothing to support the open source community. I'd say their main goal is to pump out new hardware as fast as possible and not supporting older hardware in any way to force people to spend more money with them. In general support and software is a huge cost and doesn't provide any profit for them, so they choose not to provide it.