Carmella Benton

Hi I own a NanoPi R4S Specs: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=284&search=r4s&description=true&category_id=0&sub_category=true There is written: But the hardware has no HDMI out or other display output. Why there is support for a Desktop OS? I plugged in two 2 USB attached devices, because there is no WLAN capabilities? Is this correct? lsusb Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0bc2:ab09 Seagate RSS LLC Fast SSD (..) Bus 003 Device 002: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] (..) and sudo lshw (..) *-network:1 description: Wireless interface physical id: c bus info: usb@3:1 logical name: wlx74da38f04203 (..) capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192cu driverversion=6.1.50-current-rockchip64 firmware=N/A ip=192.168.76.89 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 What is "ethernet physical wireless"? Is this my Edimax adapter? My Edimax adapter is ancient, I got it out of the basement. This is still from Raspberry 2 times. Does it still meet today's performance requirements? kind regards Carmella

Hi I had bought a NanoPi R4S with the goal of installing IPfire. Unfortunately that was too complicated for me https://wiki.ipfire.org/hardware/arm/friendlyelec/nanopi-r4s I had now installed Armbian and NextCloud and I am very satisfied. In about 10 hours I had "my own cloud". Therefore a very warm and big thank you to the Armbian developers. Only thanks to the Armbian, I can look over the Raspberry horizon. I wish you a very pleasant week Best regards

thank you Werner. your answer was very helpful. With this information, I can do more research. This answer should be easy to find (SEO) for anyone who wants to look beyond the Raspberry.

Hi With a web search and in Kodi wiki I found only outdated info. Which ARM board with much better performance than Raspberry (I want 4K streaming) and good Linux support? Which is the flagship of 2023 for TV box? Installation and setup should be easy, like a x86 PC. I am not yet sure if I run LibreElec or armbian Thanks