alt Hacker NewsRPi dropped the ball relative to the competition. Orange Pi boards outperform them for a fraction of the price. There are very few use-cases where Raspberry is preferable.
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Support is everything for these boards. At least that's the way I see it. I looked into replacing my rpi4 with some other manufacturer but I see a lot of issues with support, mainly older kernels work, some even have some obscure builds that you have to download from some forums. Where my 4 still works fine on latest kernel. Even my rpi2 if I'm not mistaken, though didn't try it lately.
I think the RPi 4 is still competitive. At ~40$, Orange Pi's boards are Allwinner H618 and Rockchip RK3566 based boards. I do have an Orange Pi 3B in use because it has an nvme port, but the RPi 4 is generally faster.
The Raspberry Pi 5 and Orange Pi 5 are just too expensive. I do have some of the Pi 5s from both these companies, but have replaced them with Intel N100 mini-PCs instead. But I'll still use RPi 4's for my 3d printers and other lower-end uses.
And RPi's software support is just better: I've got an Orange Pi 4. Orange Pi hasn't updated their OS for it in years. Last time I tried to get it working in Armbian, HDMI output was (is?) broken: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26818-opi-4-lts-no-hdmi-outp...
I have had an Orange Pi 5 max for about six months, still can't get it to boot with a serial console attached which makes it hard to port any alternative operating systems to it.
I just googled Orange Pi, tried to click on the first result, which is their website. But they have no https site set up, so I got no host. Http works but only on iOS safari, that's a bit weird. Is this CN net weirdness?