/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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>drawbacks
MKS dont opensource everything, and their probably hacky job of adapting armbian to run the combo board comes with a big 'dont upgrade the OS because reasons' caveats. Meaning at some point someone else will either perform the same adjustments to a newer base OS, or the existing hacky OS will eventually become problematic due to age.
You only need to see the multiple typos on their schematic diagrams and pcb silkscreens to see that they dont check anything, but rather just churn till it works, then move on. This laxness also doubles as designed redundancy: so we need to buy again later.
That said, someone *could* make the required adjustments to armbian or whatever linux distro.... and there is already at least one right now, but how useful it is i cant say. What I saw didnt seem particularly compelling on the surface of its documentation, but maybe thats just me.
Someone with a spare board needs to set it up and comment before anyone else will be interested enough to stop the project dying, i suspect.