Well, I'm using Armbian, at least for now. It has way more fancy stuff and daemons doing nonsense than I like but Arch I think doesn't even have HDMI working on the Rock64. OpenBSD says they require a serial console as part of the install (for ARM machines in general). What I like about Linux is that because of the popularity more things will build under it. It's like pulling hen's teeth getting some things to build under OpenBSD because writers of configure scripts don't anticipate it.
Anyway, the rtl8192 doesn't work any better in Armbian than in Ayufan's Debian. Very unreliable, works maybe 1/5 of the time. I don't know where you guys got your driver but it's crap. The one Raspbian uses works much better. The one in arm64 Buster is at least different when I look at an nm listing of the ko files. I haven't used it much, I just use the Pi's built-in wifi hardware except when I want the extra range of a gain antenna. I'll look at it when I'm on the Pi.
I'm using a Ralink $4 micro USB wifi that OpenBSD didn't have a driver for last time I tried it. That was probably at least 5 years ago.
But I bought a Rock64 for the extra RAM over the Pi. My Nikon D5200 takes RAW files that are 6000x400x pixels and 14 bits/color/pixel. Gimp since 1.9 can handle the full color depth but it's a large amount of data, on a Pi it takes 5 minutes to apply some of the filters to an image.
Anyway, the rtl8192 doesn't work any better in Armbian than in Ayufan's Debian. Very unreliable, works maybe 1/5 of the time. I don't know where you guys got your driver but it's crap. The one Raspbian uses works much better. The one in arm64 Buster is at least different when I look at an nm listing of the ko files. I haven't used it much, I just use the Pi's built-in wifi hardware except when I want the extra range of a gain antenna. I'll look at it when I'm on the Pi.
I'm using a Ralink $4 micro USB wifi that OpenBSD didn't have a driver for last time I tried it. That was probably at least 5 years ago.
But I bought a Rock64 for the extra RAM over the Pi. My Nikon D5200 takes RAW files that are 6000x400x pixels and 14 bits/color/pixel. Gimp since 1.9 can handle the full color depth but it's a large amount of data, on a Pi it takes 5 minutes to apply some of the filters to an image.