I could get a weekly release build Armbian XFCE running great directly from NVMe, I believe in earlier replies there is some instructions about doing that.
Armbian + this hardware power is great!! The lack of mainline linux kernel is the most important thing to improve, but I would like to point another thing:
I was trying to install GitLab Community Edition in the latest Armbian for ROCK5B (I know there are a lot of issues), one of the requisites is to have ruby interpreter of exactly the version 2.7, and the interpreter available in repositories is 3.0 (which is not suported by GitLab server).
So I have tried to compile from source, but I was not able to do that because it does not find openssl, even if I add the correct path in the configure script...
I know this topic is not the main subject of this discussion, but I would like to point that as this is the most important topics in the ROCK5B forum section.