>> Armbian is *NOT* Debian They do things differently there. Some of their [...] > Then you are missing out on the many things a pi clone can do on 5% of an > amd64's power budget. Granted the amd64 can do it 20x faster, ignoring that > the pi clone is fast enough. Debian seems to treat the arm64's a toy.
FWIW, I've been using ARM-based SBCs for more than 10 years (4 different boards, I'm ashamed to say) and have used Debian on all of them. So no: you don't need Armbian to make use of that kind of hardware. Stefan