Last time I tried convincing em to install Linux, they said "I'm on it" to end up ghosting me after like I was a weird, random beggar they met on the street.
It's pretty good. Even better than the raspberry pi 4 considering its performance and comically low power draw (It doesn't go over the 2W mark even with both cpu and gpu at 100%.). Other than that, it's perfectly usable, despise its lack of (out of the box) support.
As a proud Orange pi zero 3 owner (which I'm using it as a "lab rat" by testing several things, including shutting it down like its a router)....? Nah.
A separate /home partition means you can set $ROOTFS as read-only (and /home as rw) and have a "pseudo-everlasting but not really" file system.
(And before someone says "Why not simply disable logs instead? It's the same thing." -- yes, yes it is. But sometimes you want a "just werks" solution, even if it is a dumb one. Which is (obviously) disabling writes all over $ROOTFS.)
You can see it by yourself right now if you have docker: docker run -it --rm --log-driver none --cap-drop=ALL --read-only --net none --security-opt=no-new-privileges --name ascii-matrix defnotgustavom/ascii-matrix
-EDIT- Whoops. Just realized its a fork. Eeeeeehhhh... it'll give you a nice idea regardless.
I actually created a new image with it -- docker run -it --rm --log-driver none --cap-drop=ALL --read-only --net none --security-opt=no-new-privileges --name animatrix defnotgustavom/animatrix
I'll try it on my Orange pi zero 3 just for giggles.
-EDIT- I just did (straight from their site), and welp... 5 minutes to load a map, lots of stuttering yet performance was okay'ish ( ~25 frames per second). Not bad for a little board with only 1 GiB of ram and the power draw capped at 2W.
Imagine being a long time Nintendo fan to end up being sued because playing their games (and sharing your experience with others) is now considered the same as stealing.
So...gamers, and maybe a few youtubers with less than 10 subscribers? Nah, we güd.