> Are there any boards like this which actually have decent wifi?
Doubtful. It's a race to the bottom for any SBC which isn't a Raspberry Pi or ODROID.
It's highly unlikely someone will make a board that costs $15 and has great WiFi, because everyone blindly buys the $8 board (because cheaper = better!) with shit WiFi and then complains about how crap all these Chinese SBCs are.
Especially when websites post stories about these board releases never bother to update their articles and essentially just give the manufacturer free advertising. [0] [1]
Hell even Intel tablets running Windows 8.1/10 are using shitty 2.4GHz Realtek SDIO based WiFi that still isn't supported in Linux.
In the race to the bottom, good software support is sacrificed first.
Doubtful. It's a race to the bottom for any SBC which isn't a Raspberry Pi or ODROID.
It's highly unlikely someone will make a board that costs $15 and has great WiFi, because everyone blindly buys the $8 board (because cheaper = better!) with shit WiFi and then complains about how crap all these Chinese SBCs are.
Especially when websites post stories about these board releases never bother to update their articles and essentially just give the manufacturer free advertising. [0] [1]
Hell even Intel tablets running Windows 8.1/10 are using shitty 2.4GHz Realtek SDIO based WiFi that still isn't supported in Linux.
In the race to the bottom, good software support is sacrificed first.
[0] http://linuxgizmos.com/headless-orange-pi-zero-sbc-has-wifi-...
[1] http://hackaday.com/2016/11/07/orange-pi-releases-two-boards...