Armbian is [edit: no longer] dropping support for Pinebook Pro

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Thanks for the reminder, River, and your concerns of not wanting to scare people off from Armbian.  They are appreciated (and I agree with you)!  Armbian is a great distro.[0]  I just hadn't logged in over here in a while (just been busy with life).

A lot can change in a year.  The Armbian project put out a call for help and several people stepped up to various roles (including Maintainer for PineBook Pro).  Since then I think Igor even took a sabbatical from $DAYJOB and is working on Armbian full time.  And they received some nl.net grant funding as well (and maybe others?).

I suppose that I would be remiss not to point out that (AFAIK) PINE64 have never really significantly helped Armbian in any way, financially nor otherwise.  In fact they seem (to me anyway) to go out of their way never to mention them in their monthly updates or other official communication channels.  While at the same time bringing attention to downstream projects which are actually in fact based on Armbian (lol).

I am not surprised your experience was good on Armbian.  Mine always was too, hence me trying to help out wherever I can.  It seems to me they have a high standard for themselves of what they consider 'Supported', and that shows in the finished product.

I have updated the OP (and title) to reflect the current state of affairs.  Thanks again.

[0] Technically Armbian is actually just a build tool, they automate that tool + their CI and infrastructure to produce, host, and distribute flashable images just for people's convenience.  But it actually took me some years to understand that fine distinction.