Is Raspberry Pi 3 the best bang for your buck? or are there cheaper+superior single-board computers?

is Raspberry Pi 3 the best bang for your buck? or are there cheaper+superior single-board computers?

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thanks for the bump

>are there cheaper+superior single-board computers?
Yes, but you probably don't want to deal with their chink tier software support.

Try your single board shit on the RPi3 first and consider a more powerful board if and only if the Pi is not enough.

couldn't I just run linux on them like any other board?

My project is to build a drone with it.

The official Linux images for some of those "better than Pi" boards tend to be ancient versions crudely hacked into supporting the hardware, mutilated beyond any hope of merging with the mainstream kernel. With no docs. Not sure they'd bother even if they spoke English.
Sometimes no source code even because it seems to be impossible to contact the people who made the images.

odroid

sage exists

but anyway, get a parallella

>parallella
why is it good?

everything a RPi has plus an extra processor with 18 cores that you can do cool things with

still, if you're just using it to play your midget hentai on your TV or serve files, probably unnecessary

what's the price difference

stfw

Why is it so fucking expensive though

>$100
>fucking expensive

neets get a job

Well it will never be able to compete with raspi's with such a price difference

it's in a different niche, it isn't competing in the first place. raspis have mediocre performance.

orangePi

way better bang for buck ratio.

There is cheaper boards and there is superior boards.
The advantage of the pi is it is a decent platform and everyone knows about it.
This simplifies the choice when you have to make an embedded system.
Selecting the hardware for a personal assistant, git server or need a linux box on your mobile robot? The PI is great for these things.
If you need more power, you probably need a lot more power or if you need less, you probably need a lot less.

So making a shield for a pi is safe.

Is it reliable?
It looks like chinese knock-off shit

rpi3 sucks

care to elaborate?

You can create your own image relatively easy.

it's literally the same hardware. Same build quality.