Yocto is overkill for a hobbyist. It's designed to help big companies build linux distributions for multiple platforms. It works great for companies like NXP that have the resources to devote to it, but it's a f&$cking bear to wrap your hands around if you just want to build linux for a single dev-board.
Buildroot is much smaller/simpler for hobbyists IMO.
NVidia's Jetson lineup is really a double edged (disingenuous IMO) sword. They provide some nice GPU/NPU power for AI stuff and a decent price and is great to play/learn with. However if you want to take a jetson to production you can't. They don't sell the bare SOC's and the modules have limits to how many you can buy. That jetson lineup is probably a 0.05% pimple on their balance sheet...
Buildroot is much smaller/simpler for hobbyists IMO.
NVidia's Jetson lineup is really a double edged (disingenuous IMO) sword. They provide some nice GPU/NPU power for AI stuff and a decent price and is great to play/learn with. However if you want to take a jetson to production you can't. They don't sell the bare SOC's and the modules have limits to how many you can buy. That jetson lineup is probably a 0.05% pimple on their balance sheet...