First impressions and feedback on my Pine64 experience

[MacFizz]

Hey
Just wanted to give some feedback on my pine64 experience if it can help anybody.
I ordered 2 Pine64 board, a 1GB and a 2GB.
I didn't experience any problem regarding delivery and delays (I did receive the notification of shipment a week after actually receiving the parcell).

My configuration is:

• Rpi B running openelec (Kodi). Runs smooth with HDMI CEC (using my TV remote), but some limitations apply (no HEVC, limited choice of skins, slow interface)
  
• Rpi B+ running raspian with mpd, transmission, squid, DHCP server, MySQL server (it's crowded and might not be always very responsive)
  

My goal would be to have:

• Rpi B running Volumio or straight mpd
  
• Rpi B+ running raspian with squid, DHCP server
  
• 1 GB Pine64 running kodi (ontop of whatever might work)
  
• 2 GB Pine64 running http server, owncloud, MySQL server, acting as a NAS
  
• Odroid C2 with XRDP for a remote workstation
  

First off, for a media center comparable to the Rpi running openelec, Pine64 is a no go. Kodi on Android is slow and unstable (no CEC). Kodi on linux is unusable. Videos will play but as there is no 3D support for now, UI is extremely slow. And also no CEC.

For the other Pine, I planned to use Ubuntu but after several attempts, I installed Debian that seems to be more stable and all the packages (especially MySQL, PHPmyadmin) install and work fine.

So for me and for now there a few things to know:

• for a nice media center, Pine64 is useless (no 3D HW accel, no CEC)
  
• the arm64 is still young, so some things might not work out of the box (LXDE, Xubuntu-desktop are buggy for now).
  
• Better try several different OSs depending of what you want to do with your board. Many different linux are available and there's also Android and RemixOS
  
• Some problems are not specific to the Pine64 but are arm64 or distribution specific
  

For many things we'll have to wait a bit and for others, I wonder if it's going to happen at all (HDMI CEC).

So, here it is.
Any thoughts ?