The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

One point that isn’t touched on in this blog post is that with things that are not Raspberry Pi, you can actually run upstream mainline Linux kernels, instead of some long-lived vendor kernel fork that is rebased onto an LTS release every so often.

And you don’t have to deal with some Broadcom-specific proprietary boot method; with Intel/AMD you just get the vendor UEFI firmware, and with mainlined ARM SoCs you get mainline u-boot which with its standard boot flow will just UEFI+DT boot a generic distro image.