[Kadin]

Yes, a hundred times yes.

I've been down this road and while it was certainly an interesting learning experience in some of the mechanics of the kernel build process, module dependencies, etc. etc., it was not necessarily productive in moving the projects forward that I wanted to do with the temptingly-cheap Chinese SBCs that I couldn't resist buying.

Having learned that lesson, now I won't order something unless it's formally supported by someone like the Armbian project (or Debian, or OpenWRT, etc.). And as interesting as some of the niche SBCs are, sticking to boards that have a broad userbase saves a lot of time when you run into weird errors.