For years Raspberry Pi was not able to deliver:

And the Raspberry Pi 4 went up to 200 – 300 USD used on eBay for a longer period of time during the chip crisis, a price which this device is not worth it. And who wants to depend on such a product? On the contrast, the Orange Pi 5 was always available. And cannot happen again what happened then? So we choose the Orange Pi 5 instead:

Which is ready for developers. And the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w has no successor since a long time. But the Orange Pi Zero 3W is not far from fitting our needs either:

• But the Orange Pi 5 was used in many tests and demos, but not the the Orange Pi zero 3 w yet.
• So we think it is worth to promote the Orange Pi 5.
• And we promote also armbian on the Orange Pi 5, since it has support for the Orange Pi 5:

https://forum.armbian.com/forum/206-orange-pi-5

• Armbian is an alternative for the Raspberry PiOS. And armbian has a support forum. And the Orange Pi 5 is one of the most active topics there. The support is good. We found for instance help there how to add a 2.4 GHz Rii i4 mini there, the preferred choice of a keyboard for the Orange Pi 5. The armbian forum is the most active community we found for the Orange Pi 5.

• But also the optimized Ubuntu for the Orange Pi 5 resolves issues:

https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues

• The optimized Ubuntu is the preferred choice of Remember this Tech. The Orange Pi 5 with the Modified Ubuntu is a device which could be used as a every day computer for testing purposes.
• For the Orange Pi s, the hardware is there, but not yet the community. There are too many SBCs available. We try to promote the Orange Pi 5 for our project. It seems to be possible. And it seems also possible to use an Orange Pi 5 as an everyday computer, at least for testing purposes, to get to know this SBCs.
• But also our interest is temporarily. To build our own device, the Orange Pi 5 is a large device which draws a lot of battery power. And we probably will switch to a another platform sooner or later.
• We are physiologists, and not soft- and hardware developers. Raspberry Pi s are used for experimental projects. We feel treated badly by Raspberry Pi. So we promote the Orange Pi 5 instead for our projects to start with.
• The Orange Pi 5 is now in a state where can test it and it is worth testing for us personally, and also to promote it.
• Since in Switzerland the Orange Pi 5 cannot be bought. And it seems that someone want to force people to develop SBCs such as the Orange Pi 5.
• The Orange Pi 5 was temporarily available in Switzerland from Techstudio as a reaction to our blog.
• So the demand for those devices seem to be very low.
• But for us personally, the Orange Pi 5 has become more interesting than the Rasbperry Pi 5 as platform, due to bad experiences with Raspberry Pi products in the past.