Last Updated on May 3, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
If we look at this and other YouTube videos about the Orange Pi 5 and Armbian:
“leepspvideo The Orange Pi 5 just got a Great OS. Armbian Linux”
And compare it to how Fedora 37 runs on the Raspberry Pi 4
Then we ask ourselves and asked before, is it not better to install Fedora on the Orange Pi 5 than on the Raspberry Pi 4?
- Fedora supports UEFI, which is fairly generic.
- Then you need the right overlays for the kernel.
- These instructions are probably as good as it gets:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/25597-orange-pi-5-boot-from-usb-using-uefigrub/#comment-156752
- Fedora is after boot and also the kernel pretty generic linux software.
This has let us conclude, that it is not a big step to install Fedora on a Orange Pi 5.
- But this was our conclusion before we had knowledge about the issues of the Orange Pi 5 with Armbian:
https://forum.armbian.com/forum/206-orange-pi-5-5b/
- Wifi works only with selected adapters
- touch works with the official Orange touch display, but only in landscape mode
- there are issues with certain HDMI monitors
- reviews show mainly games, and hardly other applications
- there are other issues about this and that
- Is the Armbian community not many a community of coders?
- The installation of Fedora on a standart x86 might be easy.
- But the Orange Pi 5 is an ARM based SBC, it is also possible to install Fedora on ARM based systems, but is it as straight forward with all the drivers and peripherals?
- Will the issues the device has running Armbian not also be there in Fedora?
- So if you want to install Fedora on the Orange Pi 5, go for it.
- But will the result not be another issue report about what does not work with the Orange Pi 5 and Fedora?