Having been burnt several times buying 'cheap' SoC's like these and then spending hours trying to get them working due to crappy upstream support then I'd steer clear of this. If you value your time and don't want to get out SPI interfaces and the like to debug something then save your time and subsequently money, buy a Pi3.
Side note: One vendor (Pine64) even shipped binary images in a RAR format. I'm not sure why this was chosen, but makes you wonder how they got to that decision and if they spent much time working with 'proper' distro's for embedded, where nothing is shipped as a RAR but gz/bz/xz whatever
Side note: One vendor (Pine64) even shipped binary images in a RAR format. I'm not sure why this was chosen, but makes you wonder how they got to that decision and if they spent much time working with 'proper' distro's for embedded, where nothing is shipped as a RAR but gz/bz/xz whatever