What is your favorite alternative ? Why ? Are Raspberry Pi tutorials compatible with it ? Thank you, everyone
Orange Pi http://www.orangepi.org/
A few advantages over Raspberry Pi come from its openness and flexibility. Orange Pi boards tend to be cheaper too, and they have a wider variety of models, including some built around RISC-V processors which are not locked to a proprietary hardware architecture. This makes it easier for to understand the system at a deeper level and to build truly open source computing projects.
I like banana pi
Used mini PCs, Chromeboxes, or laptops (the kind with removable batteries). As long as GPIO pins are not needed, most things can be replicated with minimal effort on Debian amd64. And when I do need GPIO, I can usually get away with an Arduino.
If you are not using the gpio you should look at mini PCs instead. More expandable and runs x86 processors, not to mention abundant on second hand markets.
It really depends on what you want to use it for. Answers could be anything from a mini pc to an esp32
Rockchip CPU based boards are much more price efficient and software is pretty good too. And Pi has the awful micro HDMI port
