A Rant About Pine, Other Distros, & Still Trying to Get Fedora Booting From eMMC.

[whitecat23]

SBC world are very different to x86, as the latter have a standardized hardware interface.  This is one of main reasons you see so much difference across distros.

I learned a long time ago that a distro which specialize in SBCs (like Armbian, or one of its many derivatives) is going to work a lot better than "random distro X I know from x86 world."

May not be what you want to hear if you are a Fedora guy, but that's the way it is (and has been for some years, and likely will be for foreseeable future).

Now that I've been using Fedora Linux for a couple months, I can say that the experience has been good, at least for me. Fedpra wasn't my first choice in operating system: I was leaning towards Armbian only to discover that official support for RockPro64 was ending at around the time Fedora 35 got released. It's a very stable and performant system, except that I keep encountering one hiccup related to video playback. And for this reason alone I understand the importance of having a supported distro like Armbian, if only to use as a 'gold standard' when tweaking another system. But I gotta admit, I'm impressed by how well Fedora just works on the RockPro64, and hopefully the next release incorporates some GPU optimizations right out of the box.
In retrospect my "rant" might have been a little too harsh; just a product of my frustration at the time, of trying to find a supported OS that also runs well on my hardware. Ideally, Armbian continues their official support for the the RockPro64. I've read your ongoing thread and it seems the situation regarding Armbian is still up in the air. Even though I'm not an Armbian user (at least not yet), my fingers are crossed this will soon be resolved...