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I own one. I prefer the Raspberry Pi.

- Running Android seems .. useless without a touch device. Tried it, was basically useless for me.

- Running various Linux distributions was not nice either:

* (Fixable) The community projects feel a lot less polished than anything the Pi has

* (Unfixable) The HDMI port sucks. On all TVs I connected it to I have under-/overscan issues. There are no boot options similar to the Pi that allow me to fix that. The IRC channel suggested to 'Fix the TV'...

Looks nice, cheap, interesting specs, but collects dust over here.



I found it to be pretty much the same. Initial set up was very convoluted compared to the Pi. Community resources were scarce and I basically had to fudge an Arch install without much guidance.

However it has superseded my Pi (HTTP/Torrent/SMB/DLNA Media server) which was running Raspbian and it's a lot faster at doing it.


Is yours running headless though? The HDMI issue was my biggest problem.


It is headless yeah, I have other devices to play media files from it through the network.


There is a capacitive multitouch display accessory listed on the site: http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G13...

But no information about software support.




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