Review on 💻 High-Performance Mini Computer: Libre Computer Board ALL-H3-CC H3 1GB (Tritium) with Full Free Open Source Software Assistance by Jeffrey Connel

I would not recommend this board to anyone. Without a heatsink, the board is useless and only works when idle. If anything is running, in a few minutes the CPU will reach a maximum temperature of 105 degrees Celsius and shut down (if kill switch is supported, works with Linux 5.8.6, your mileage may vary, my board didn't burn). With heat sinks on the CPU and RAM, the temperatures still rise to around 95 degrees Celsius under load. Other similar boards from the same manufacturer, but with different chips, heat up to 70-80 degrees under load and without a heat sink. I will not buy Allwinner Chip products in the future if I can avoid it. There is virtually no documentation for this board, a few slides in google docs, a broken link to the forums and that's it. There is a submarine button on the board, I have no idea what this button does and I couldn't find any information on what this button is for. OS Images: - All provided images are outdated, made in 2019, uploaded and never updated. .- Armbian has support for this board and images work in a headless setting, but the GPU is very slow. It works fine with newer Lima drivers, but they are only packaged for Debian 11. At the time of writing, Debian 11 is a trial version that hasn't been released yet, and to get Armbian based on Debian 11 you'll either need to create your own image. or install an older image and go through the upgrade process. For a board released in 2018 I would say it's still poorly supported by the original version at the end of 2020. Other distributions have instructions for this board, but none of them seem to have working images. All instructions mention that u-boot will be built from scratch and installed manually. Since u-boot doesn't seem to provide any pre-built binaries, I didn't bother testing. I've tried ripping a working U-Boot from an Armbian image but to no avail. Armbian was the only distro I was able to boot successfully on this board.