I was just responding to your statements. You said
I asked you where in the docs that’s mentioned and you replied with a link to docs where there’s nothing like that contained. So to me that was a false, misleading statement of yours.
You obviously have a strong background in and preference to use Armbian and some SBC you already know to operate - that’s perfectly fine, in fact the official recommendation is not a RPi but to use whatever you feel most comfortable with.
And any opinion and substantial contribution is welcome - thanks for those pointers.
Those optimizations however aren’t exclusive to Armbian and in fact the most important ones are already part of this recommendation (note the post’s creation date).
But by no means we accept ranting or false claims.
Setting up openHABian on RPi means to flash the image to the card, then boot and wait for the installation to finish… I can hardly think of any other method to be even less work for a user - so to me, the “more work” statement is another false, misleading one.
To the average OH user, support is of uttermost importance (@Andrew_Rowe expressed it well).
And the best support you will only get when you stick with the mainstream.