@@ExplainingComputers That reminded me to actually subscribe, as I looked at your sub count and saw that the sub button still was white next to it. So now I've subbed to you as well :)
I've got a PI5 with a HatDrive mounted to the back of a monitor in my kitchen, which is my daily web browser. Works awesome. All thanks to ExplainingComputers.
Lol. I am watching it on my Raspberry Pi 3. But using my phone to enter this comment. PS - It's traditional for me. Every time Christopher has a video about a Raspberry Pi I have to hookup my Pi 3 and watch it 👍
Mathematica (AKA the Wolfram Language Desktop) runs on the Raspberry PI OS. It was tedious to run Mathematica in the ancient days of the original PI, but an 8GB PI 5 provides great horsepower for this free-on-PI computation/visualization engine. Wolfram Research provides a great number of self-paced and live courses on their website for no charge. It's a tremendous place for a STEM-oriented HS student to learn this software before going to University. I'd love to see Explaining Computers have a video running Mathematica on the PI 5 showing what sort of spiffy things can be done with this software.
@@roguequill Hear, hear. Besides the huge increase with today's computational power, you can now completely configure SSH and VNC through the Flash Imager. Some parents, etc. may be averse to getting and wiring kbd, mouse, and monitor; those are now completely unnecessary. All you really need is power, and you can stash the Pi away in a corner. Optionally, a hardwired ethernet connection would give a bit lower latency for the network connection.
My RPI5 is my only PC for daily use with Raspbery PI OS and overclocked to 2.9 GHz. I love this OS, it's clear and user-friendly without any unnecessary bells and whistles. By the way, with the X11 tab switching takes place with a list. The party will probably start next week to celebrate 1 million subscribers. Cheers Chris.🎉🎶
Given a bit more time I think more will be available, and with that in mind, I wish FreeBSD would hurry up and get a version for the Pi 5 🙂 Another great video, always a pleasure sir....
This was a nice overview of possible choices. My favorite choice right now is Raspberry Pi OS Lite with a window manager installed on top. Both of my Raspberry Pi 5s are running that way with LXQT, but Gnome, KDE, LXDE and others are available. Running the first party OS in a lite version gives the officially patched kernel, but you can get any visual style you want by installing your own window manager.
Impressive list of operating systems for the Pi 5. Ubuntu's solitaire game garners an extra 107 points! What high praise from you. Looking forward to your next video!
Thank you Chris for another great video!!! I own a pi4 with 8GB of RAM and i run raspberry pi os, kali, ubuntu mate 22.04( great distro also), sparky linux ( uses openbox and so it is the fastest of all) and finally my main os is MX 23 with the KDE plasma( installed it and removed XFCE witch is the default DE) . I believe MX is also an exellent choice for a daily driver on the pi!!!
Another fantastic video! I had not known about the FydeOS which I find incredibly interesting. Always high quality narrative and presentation my friend.
Thanks for this round-up of RPi5 options, I've been trying to work out what to do with mine and now I have one or two new ideas! I've been enjoying your content for some time Chris, and I'm so happy to be here to witness you on the cusp of that golden million. Keep up the good work buddy, and best of luck going forward with the channel.
You are really underrated youtuber originally started watching you after my dad told me that you had really good computer related content and since then i've been here and im really surprised i hadn't heard of your channel beforewards cause the content is high quality unlike many other same videos on youtube. Keep it up chris!
Greetings from across the pond near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. One million (almost) subscribers. This is generating almost as much excitement and anticipation among your followers as the 1969 moon landing, I reckon. (I did say 'almost'.) If he were alive today, Walter Cronkite would take off his glasses and be speechless, just like when Armstrong stepped out of the lunar lander. Well done, Prof. Barnatt. Always nice to have a modern 'moon landing' event like this. 😀
I guess I'll have to finally think about getting a Raspberry Pi 5. I love these videos that test different operating systems, it's good to see what's being developed.
Thank you Chris for an excellent video, I'm impressed with the Pi 5 & it has some interesting OS's for it. I do like the look of Fyde OS & when you mentioned streaming to a TV that's right up my street, my old Set top box (2015) won't play ITV X & is about to loose Netflix & RUclips access. Perhaps a future video about streaming to a TV? I'd had some thoughts about using an N100 setup for this very task, now a Pi 5 'Hmm' really compact, low power & fairly quiet, what do you think? Kind regards Alan :) 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
Another good video. In case you did not know, MX Linux is also available to Raspberry Pi 5. It is a good distribution for it. I like it better than Ubuntu
Hey! I remember watching your in 2019 when I was a kid. I became so obsessed with this Raspberry Pi, Windows 10 and even making my own laptop at home in late 2019 but I gave up on the thought. A lot has changed today 2024. I'm a RUclipsr now
Thanks Chris! As I'm running well off my schedule, I was happy to see your youtube page greeting me with the one million subscribers milestone. ✔️ Amazing! 🎉 Here's to daring to dream yet again! I'm nearing my goal of 17 (years) times $25 per year (approximately). You're an exemplary ambassador for human beings. Warm regards Chris and continued success in all your endeavors!
I'm glad I found your video. I was going to run Ubuntu and plex on my Pi5, but after watching this, I tried Pi os. The Pi os is so much faster. Thanks so much
--Arch-based EndavourOS-- and independent Alpine Linux both have images for Raspberry Pi 5 (only for model B as far as I can tell). Since we tried just Debian-based distros on it it would be cool to see how another type of distro would compete. There's also OpenSUSE, Fedora and Gentoo all having an Installation ISO for ARM64 systems. Update: EndeavourOS is no longer providing ARM builds.
@@TradieTrev This is very outdated information. Chris's daily driver computer is Linux running on an Intel N100, and he is now a full time RUclipsr. Your information was accurate a few years ago.
Thank you for another SBC video and specifically a Pi5 one. My favourite two distributions are Mint and Slackware and I don't expect that either will ever have a Pi version. Too bad, a Slackware version would be a great learning tool.
Excellent video as always! I was very surprised seeing that Recalbox has emulators for the Vectrex and the Pokemon Mini. I guess if one is in the mood for "Mine Storm" or "Togepi's Great Adventure", they can sure play it on there. Well, provided they have the ROMs. Kali Linux looked very interesting too. So many tools for hacking, it's unbelieveable.
I watched your first video on the pi5 and wanted the nvme video which came after. Then I wanted a video on opensuse, this was more than enough, Thanks Chris you are a legend! I am very impressed indeed. In the 2030s we'll all be using SBC's!
Always genuinely excellent, thank you. A couple of mentions for other OS's that every RPi owner should know about: -RiscOS - The original and still awesome OS for ARM. Really only for hobbyists these days, but worth a look and on the default installer -DietPi - If you need a lightweight and highly configurable Linux for projects, specific tasks, or desktop use, this is it. (Not for Pi only!)
Armbian is extremely useful for a "quick and dirty" OS to get an SBC up and running, particularly older SBCs that are no longer supported by the manufacturers or major Linux distros like Ubuntu. You have to bear in mind that the Armbian team is small and their builds are generally automated, so they're not optimised for a particular SBC anyway. You neglected to mention Gentoo Linux which supports Raspberry Pi 5 with a wiki page that details how to install it - however, it's not for the impatient but it's the best way of getting an optimised Linux build onto anything, once you've overcome the initial and steep learning curve. When I am doing Gentoo builds on older and lesser known SBCs like Orange Pi or Banana Pi, I will generally start with an Armbian build just to boot the machine up and get the layout of the filesystem, as well as the configuration of the (u-boot) bootloader for the specific SBC. With a lot of older SBCs, there is no specific documentation for them with Gentoo, though as most of them boot with the u-boot bootloader, once you understand how to build that then everything else is a root filesystem built on a specific ARM variant anyway.
Armbian is a great distro. They support everything. Maybe not with all of the bells and whistles, but Armbian has allowed me to continue using an old Odroid C2 with current software.
Another excellent video, plus 107 points to Mr. Barnatt. To be the best of my knowledge, Alpine Linux is also available for the Pi 5, but is a much more ‘do it yourself’ kind of distribution. I would be curious to hear Chris’s take on it. Also, the channel is closing in on one million subscribers, fingers crossed next week that threshold has been reached.
Another great video Chris! So many operating systems to look at, so little time.....I also was able to grab the test video you use for your RUclips-streaming Nerd's Test. Thanks for that. And as always, thanks for all your hard work and informative videos Chris. Take Good Care.
RUclips playback on the RPi5 using Ubuntu is still too gittery but RBOS is more or less ok. Be cautious with Wayland distros as some of your utilities, like screen capture apps, may not work. Great video though Chris!
All of your OS choices were good, but I prefer Arch/Arch-based distros. On my Pi 5 8GB right now I have EndeavourOS (an Arch distro) running with Wayland and the Hyprland DTWM (Dynamic Tiling Window Manager). I'm running vanilla Arch here on my main desktop with the same setup. I have a Radxa Rock 5B on the way (with accessories too ofc) that I plan to use as my travel/hotel room miniPC for watching movies etc so I don't have to tether my laptop to the hotel room TV all the time. I'm going to be running what's called BredOS (another Arch distro) on the Rock 5B and maybe compare it to EndeavourOS running on my Pi5 (whether or not I make a video is up in the air, but I've been curious about other ARM SBCs like the Rock (Pi) series for a while now). I'd say I'd want to see you mess with and test Arch Linux ARM on the Pi 5, but there is no official image as of yet, and it's all manual setup (at least with the Pi 4) unless you use something like EndeavourOS which has an ARM64/RPi5 OS image available though you have to jump through a few hoops to get it installed. It's not impossible, but it's somewhat annoying. I'll be running my OSes I'll be testing on the Rock 5B on a 32 GB eMMC module I ordered. ANYWAY, good video and congrats on the near 1M subs! I'm one of them! WHOOO~
It's so fascinating that there are so many linux distros that people can choose from. Since I met you online I've changed my mind over Linux OS and now it's my favourite, I couldn't even imagine it's potential.
@@tylerdean980 Personally, I started using Gentoo Linux in 2003 (Linux generally back in 1996) and I've no reason to move from Gentoo, it does all I need an OS to do for me. I do like BSD, I have a couple of machines running it but, for me, it's no competition to the flexibility of Gentoo.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I've used gentoo in the past, and it's not for me, but maybe with the additional binary packages that they're offering now I'll give it a try again. Do you know of any decent install scripts? I've done the standard install enough times that I'm over it
Wonderful coverage. You always manage to give me new knowledge on items and subjects that I previously thought I knew everything about. Great work,, and keep it coming, please!
As usual, an excellent presentation of the new OSes for RPi 5... and as I'd totally lost sight of OpenFyde, a very pertinent reminder as far as I'm concerned! While it's true that the appearance of the Raspberry Pi OS is somewhat dated, installing the "Pi-Apps" application can very easily solve the problem... among many other things.
I like the armbian theme, especially it doesn't animate when switching from one view to another (or at least this is what I saw in this video). Thanks Chris!
Excellent stuff. I used to think this channel would be a little too nerdy. I thought the content would only be for serious geeks. However this video is just showing you the operating systems which can run on Raspberry Pi 5 which anyone who can operate a smartphone can understand. I like channels that mix it up between beginner and more advanced user content.
Kali 😮 naughty 😆 but interesting also the retro gaming I often think briefly seeing what new software can run on new pi's adds a new audience to the hobby
Another GOOD ONE, Chris, appreciate this. I'm recently really into the armbian as it's making all RK/Allwinner based Pis, like-Pis, and even more TV-boxes - to be practically useful, I don't know why it performs not that well on the powerful and brand new Pi5 though. A really fun project is single-NIC-ROUTER - Any ARM SBC + Raspbian/Armbian + libvirt/KVM + openwrt (built for armvirt) + network bridges + vlan switch, actually I've been using one for literally 1 year as home major gateway, and with that right now to play your videos and post this message. Several more VMs or lxc containers can also be running on the same SBC host for some other tasks which you probably already know well, such as IPTV service. Yes, a "router" can be made with just single line iptables/nftables on the host OS - without vm/container needed, but from performance aspect, the "software flow-offloading" in openwrt repo can easily double the NAT throughput even on libvirt then on 2 ARM cores of 4, interesting right?
I’ve been using raspberry pi OS almost exclusively for a while on my pi5. I hadn’t checked what was on imager recently, will definitely be setting up a spare SD as recallbox
7:50 Insane? ;-P Where as back on Windows 7 you get 2 options for task switching. ALT-tab or Windows-tab. I like to use both. The Windows-tab scrolling deck shows a huge *LIVE* view that makes it easier to find exactly what I want. And being a live view means I may not have to actually change to that window to see progress, etc. It saves me time.
It would be lovely to see Manjaro ARM for the Raspberry Pi 5. I did enjoy it a lot with my Pi 4B and with custom CFlags and things built from scratch accordingly one would be surprised about the performance.
Finally received my Pi 5. As expected it rocks! RPi OS is OK but I tried Armbian which ran very well. I am still hooked on MX and am in the process of trying it on my new toy. Always fun to get a new Raspberry Pi. Me and my toys, oh boy.
I completely agree with you about the app-switcher on raspi OS . It's just annoying after a few tries. Maybe one day I'll actually learn the skills to really use Kali Linux, but I guess the big one would be Linux Mint on a pi, although we might have to wait for pi 6 or 7 for that one. 😄
One feature of the new Raspberry Pi OS which I have been waiting for since Pi 3 is the inclusion of Widevine DRM in both the Firefox and Chromium browsers. This has allowed me to use the Pi 5 as an entertainment system for my exercise station watching Netflix or Hulu. It would be nice if you, in the future, mentioned whether an OS has out of the box support for Widevine or not.
It's all about Cinnamon Pie... 64-bit RasPiOS Lite Bookworm with Cinnamon desktop. Stability of Pi OS, customizability of a modern desktop; runs like a champ n looks incredible!
Hi, Chris. Interesting subject this week. Food for thought… I loaded a cinnamon desktop on top of the rpi lite os. It works but I haven’t had time to fully explore the pros and cons. Maybe a subject for a future video as I know you like the linux mint os.
Awesome, nearly a Mil. Haven't seen Stanley or Mr Scissors for a while (unless I missed an episode) I think they need a cameo at least or maybe wait till you un box your golden play button....cheers.
I've got Libreelec running on a Pi 1 attached to an older TV. Also runs TVHeadend Server which gives me TV over ethernet, handy as saves on antenna problems.
I did indeed! Here we are at 1M. There will be a video linked to it this weekend, and a community tab post in a few hours (we're currently on 1,000,007, and it is going up and down, so I'll wait until it is "safe". Thanks for all your support. :)
I installed Twister OS on my Raspberry Pi 4b and it was fantastic. I particularly liked the variety of apps you could use and the excellent video playback speed and quality. When I eventually got a version of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS that worked properly it was able to produce video playback about as good as Twister OS. But, Twister OS looked much better. I can only imagine how good Twister OS would be on a Raspberry Pi 5. I'd love to see that some day if they can port it over.
Once again a very interesting video. I currently have a Raspberry Pi 400 and use some other different os for different days of the week and am wondering whether they'll all be able to run on a RPi 5. Notably: Twister; Manjaro; Debian; Chromium os; Pop!; MX Linux: Ubuntu Cinnamon (with Mint wallpaper installed to pretend that it is Mint). I also have Fedora and openSUSE but they only seem to run at about 90% at best and have given me some issues. Also could not get Void-Linux to run at all... Looking forward to trying out "Armbian" soon though. Very interested to know how the above might perform on a RPi 5 (or even a 500 - if one gets produced in the future).
Having mentioned Chrome OS Flex and showing a little of the great Libreelec, there lies the scope for another video about options for having a value media device under your TV, comparing ARM and X86 into the equation as well as the OS options.
Just subbed to help with the 1m milestone. (and of course to enjoy more videos.) Would love for you to look into the bare metal stuff that is also done on raspberry pi. like BMC64.
Another entertaining and informative video, and I would very much like to see a review of the retro gaming OS. I'd also like to see someone actually finish 3D printing that star-shaped chocolate cookie.
Great video as usual. It looks like the Pi 5 might be ready as a PC replacement. Have you tried (or do you know someone who has tried) the Lazarus IDE for Free Pascal on the Pi 5? Do you perhaps have a video on programming in languages like C, Pascal or Modula-2 on the Pi?
This is a very nice round-up of some of the most likely and useful alternatives, But how about installing the Proxmox Virtual Environment as the uber-O/S that would allow us to install ALL your other alternatives as virtual computers on the same hardware? Okay, I don't use it myself, and have no idea how feasible or not that might be, but it seems to be a very popular choice for creating virtual environments among the home-lab cognoscenti, which probably includes you as well, Dr. Barnatt.
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You so deserve a Gold Play Button. Let's throw a party next week.
Fingers crossed we will make it by next Sunday! :)
@@ExplainingComputers I think we will! You deserve it - can't wait to see that magic 1M :D
@@ExplainingComputers
That reminded me to actually subscribe, as I looked at your sub count and saw that the sub button still was white next to it. So now I've subbed to you as well :)
@@ExplainingComputersBe sure to invite Stanley the Knife, and Mr. Scissors
I'll be fashionably late (curse you, daylight savings) but I'll bring the snacks!
I am watching your much anticipated video on my PI-5 right now!!!
I've got a PI5 with a HatDrive mounted to the back of a monitor in my kitchen, which is my daily web browser. Works awesome. All thanks to ExplainingComputers.
Excellent! :)
Lol. I am watching it on my Raspberry Pi 3. But using my phone to enter this comment.
PS - It's traditional for me. Every time Christopher has a video about a Raspberry Pi I have to hookup my Pi 3 and watch it 👍
lol same here
Mathematica (AKA the Wolfram Language Desktop) runs on the Raspberry PI OS. It was tedious to run Mathematica in the ancient days of the original PI, but an 8GB PI 5 provides great horsepower for this free-on-PI computation/visualization engine. Wolfram Research provides a great number of self-paced and live courses on their website for no charge. It's a tremendous place for a STEM-oriented HS student to learn this software before going to University.
I'd love to see Explaining Computers have a video running Mathematica on the PI 5 showing what sort of spiffy things can be done with this software.
Fantastic suggestion! Seconding request for Mathematica walkthrough on the raspberry pi
Been running Ollama and many LMM AI. Processing with Deep vision runs well too. Will try Wolfram/Mathmatica next.
@@roguequill Hear, hear. Besides the huge increase with today's computational power, you can now completely configure SSH and VNC through the Flash Imager. Some parents, etc. may be averse to getting and wiring kbd, mouse, and monitor; those are now completely unnecessary. All you really need is power, and you can stash the Pi away in a corner. Optionally, a hardwired ethernet connection would give a bit lower latency for the network connection.
It can't be long now. A mega-subscribers channel. Go Chris.
:)
My RPI5 is my only PC for daily use with Raspbery PI OS and overclocked to 2.9 GHz. I love this OS, it's clear and user-friendly without any unnecessary bells and whistles. By the way, with the X11 tab switching takes place with a list. The party will probably start next week to celebrate 1 million subscribers.
Cheers Chris.🎉🎶
Thanks for this. Party is indeed soon it seems! :)
What's your (general ofc) security set up?
Ah Sunday morning sipping a good cup of coffee and watching a wonderful ExplainingComputers video.
Given a bit more time I think more will be available, and with that in mind, I wish FreeBSD would hurry up and get a version for the Pi 5 🙂
Another great video, always a pleasure sir....
Thanks for your support. I'm sure that FreeBSD will get there.
My favourite no-nonsense youtube channel :)
This was a nice overview of possible choices.
My favorite choice right now is Raspberry Pi OS Lite with a window manager installed on top. Both of my Raspberry Pi 5s are running that way with LXQT, but Gnome, KDE, LXDE and others are available. Running the first party OS in a lite version gives the officially patched kernel, but you can get any visual style you want by installing your own window manager.
Almost on the Million subs, so glad for you and your channel, I hope you get there soon !
1M ! A well deserved achievement sir. My deepest congrats 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks. :)
Impressive list of operating systems for the Pi 5. Ubuntu's solitaire game garners an extra 107 points! What high praise from you. Looking forward to your next video!
Looks like the raspberry pi will soon be my desktop machine, getting quite advanced. I love seeing all these os's, fascinating, thanks Chris!
Thank you Chris for another great video!!! I own a pi4 with 8GB of RAM and i run raspberry pi os, kali, ubuntu mate 22.04( great distro also), sparky linux ( uses openbox and so it is the fastest of all) and finally my main os is MX 23 with the KDE plasma( installed it and removed XFCE witch is the default DE) . I believe MX is also an exellent choice for a daily driver on the pi!!!
Another fantastic video! I had not known about the FydeOS which I find incredibly interesting. Always high quality narrative and presentation my friend.
Thanks for this round-up of RPi5 options, I've been trying to work out what to do with mine and now I have one or two new ideas! I've been enjoying your content for some time Chris, and I'm so happy to be here to witness you on the cusp of that golden million. Keep up the good work buddy, and best of luck going forward with the channel.
Thanks. :)
You are really underrated youtuber originally started watching you after my dad told me that you had really good computer related content and since then i've been here and im really surprised i hadn't heard of your channel beforewards cause the content is high quality unlike many other same videos on youtube. Keep it up chris!
Thanks. :)
I'm using MX 23.2 on my Pi 5, and I'm very pleased with it.
I literally started looking for something like this yesterday, and today here it is! Definitely needed this. Thank you!
Congratulations on 1M. Big accomplishment!
Greetings from across the pond near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. One million (almost) subscribers. This is generating almost as much excitement and anticipation among your followers as the 1969 moon landing, I reckon. (I did say 'almost'.) If he were alive today, Walter Cronkite would take off his glasses and be speechless, just like when Armstrong stepped out of the lunar lander. Well done, Prof. Barnatt. Always nice to have a modern 'moon landing' event like this. 😀
Thanks for your support. And what a brilliant post, thanks! :) As I type this, the subs count is 998,303 -- so under 1,700 to go.
I guess I'll have to finally think about getting a Raspberry Pi 5. I love these videos that test different operating systems, it's good to see what's being developed.
Thank you Chris for an excellent video, I'm impressed with the Pi 5 & it has some interesting OS's for it. I do like the look of Fyde OS & when you mentioned streaming to a TV that's right up my street, my old Set top box (2015) won't play ITV X & is about to loose Netflix & RUclips access. Perhaps a future video about streaming to a TV? I'd had some thoughts about using an N100 setup for this very task, now a Pi 5 'Hmm' really compact, low power & fairly quiet, what do you think? Kind regards Alan :) 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
Greetings Alan, thanks for your support. And I love the ducks! :)
@@ExplainingComputers You can never have too many ducks!!
Another good video. In case you did not know, MX Linux is also available to Raspberry Pi 5. It is a good distribution for it. I like it better than Ubuntu
Hey! I remember watching your in 2019 when I was a kid. I became so obsessed with this Raspberry Pi, Windows 10 and even making my own laptop at home in late 2019 but I gave up on the thought. A lot has changed today 2024. I'm a RUclipsr now
Thanks Chris!
As I'm running well off my schedule, I was happy to see your youtube page greeting me with the one million subscribers milestone. ✔️
Amazing! 🎉
Here's to daring to dream yet again!
I'm nearing my goal of 17 (years) times $25 per year (approximately).
You're an exemplary ambassador for human beings.
Warm regards Chris and continued success in all your endeavors!
Thanks for your support. Most appreciated. :)
Very well done video as always, Keep up the Great work. :)
I'm glad I found your video. I was going to run Ubuntu and plex on my Pi5, but after watching this, I tried Pi os. The Pi os is so much faster. Thanks so much
--Arch-based EndavourOS-- and independent Alpine Linux both have images for Raspberry Pi 5 (only for model B as far as I can tell). Since we tried just Debian-based distros on it it would be cool to see how another type of distro would compete.
There's also OpenSUSE, Fedora and Gentoo all having an Installation ISO for ARM64 systems.
Update: EndeavourOS is no longer providing ARM builds.
Chris is a windows user and known he's not keen using linux as a computer science teacher. He's agnostic which I appreciate.
@@TradieTrev This is very outdated information. Chris's daily driver computer is Linux running on an Intel N100, and he is now a full time RUclipsr. Your information was accurate a few years ago.
Thank you for another SBC video and specifically a Pi5 one. My favourite two distributions are Mint and Slackware and I don't expect that either will ever have a Pi version. Too bad, a Slackware version would be a great learning tool.
Congrats on the 1,000,000 subs!
Thanks. :)
Congratulations on reaching 1 million subscribers!!
Please ignore the above message, It is not from Christopher, rather it's a scammer.
1 Million Subscribers! Well done Christopher!! :D
Christopher, cogratulations on reaching 1M subscribers!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 You need to celebrate
Excellent video as always! I was very surprised seeing that Recalbox has emulators for the Vectrex and the Pokemon Mini. I guess if one is in the mood for "Mine Storm" or "Togepi's Great Adventure", they can sure play it on there. Well, provided they have the ROMs. Kali Linux looked very interesting too. So many tools for hacking, it's unbelieveable.
I watched your first video on the pi5 and wanted the nvme video which came after. Then I wanted a video on opensuse, this was more than enough, Thanks Chris you are a legend!
I am very impressed indeed. In the 2030s we'll all be using SBC's!
Always genuinely excellent, thank you. A couple of mentions for other OS's that every RPi owner should know about:
-RiscOS - The original and still awesome OS for ARM. Really only for hobbyists these days, but worth a look and on the default installer
-DietPi - If you need a lightweight and highly configurable Linux for projects, specific tasks, or desktop use, this is it. (Not for Pi only!)
Thanks for this. Unfortunately, RISC OS is not yet available for the Pi 5. DietPi has just entered Pi 5 testing.
Armbian is extremely useful for a "quick and dirty" OS to get an SBC up and running, particularly older SBCs that are no longer supported by the manufacturers or major Linux distros like Ubuntu. You have to bear in mind that the Armbian team is small and their builds are generally automated, so they're not optimised for a particular SBC anyway.
You neglected to mention Gentoo Linux which supports Raspberry Pi 5 with a wiki page that details how to install it - however, it's not for the impatient but it's the best way of getting an optimised Linux build onto anything, once you've overcome the initial and steep learning curve.
When I am doing Gentoo builds on older and lesser known SBCs like Orange Pi or Banana Pi, I will generally start with an Armbian build just to boot the machine up and get the layout of the filesystem, as well as the configuration of the (u-boot) bootloader for the specific SBC.
With a lot of older SBCs, there is no specific documentation for them with Gentoo, though as most of them boot with the u-boot bootloader, once you understand how to build that then everything else is a root filesystem built on a specific ARM variant anyway.
So close to 1 million, keep it up Chris!
Thank you so much for explaining the different OS’s available for the Pi. Very informative, very helpful.
Your channel is heaven for Bcs students !!!!! Thank you for your knowledgeable content !!!!!
Looking forward to learning more about ChromiumOS (esp how it differs from android)
also pre-congrats on 1,000,000 well earned subscribers
A million subs can't be too far away. Great overview!
Thanks! Less than 1800 subs to go the million now! :)
Learned a lot about new Operating Systems. Great video!
Love seeing great videos each week always something new and exciting Peter. Many thanks Mike
Thanks 👍
Armbian is a great distro. They support everything. Maybe not with all of the bells and whistles, but Armbian has allowed me to continue using an old Odroid C2 with current software.
They just dropped support for most old sbcs.
Another excellent video, plus 107 points to Mr. Barnatt. To be the best of my knowledge, Alpine Linux is also available for the Pi 5, but is a much more ‘do it yourself’ kind of distribution. I would be curious to hear Chris’s take on it. Also, the channel is closing in on one million subscribers, fingers crossed next week that threshold has been reached.
Awesomeness for including Kali linux as it's a goto for many coders!
Another great video Chris! So many operating systems to look at, so little time.....I also was able to grab the test video you use for your RUclips-streaming Nerd's Test. Thanks for that. And as always, thanks for all your hard work and informative videos Chris. Take Good Care.
RUclips playback on the RPi5 using Ubuntu is still too gittery but RBOS is more or less ok. Be cautious with Wayland distros as some of your utilities, like screen capture apps, may not work. Great video though Chris!
All of your OS choices were good, but I prefer Arch/Arch-based distros. On my Pi 5 8GB right now I have EndeavourOS (an Arch distro) running with Wayland and the Hyprland DTWM (Dynamic Tiling Window Manager). I'm running vanilla Arch here on my main desktop with the same setup. I have a Radxa Rock 5B on the way (with accessories too ofc) that I plan to use as my travel/hotel room miniPC for watching movies etc so I don't have to tether my laptop to the hotel room TV all the time. I'm going to be running what's called BredOS (another Arch distro) on the Rock 5B and maybe compare it to EndeavourOS running on my Pi5 (whether or not I make a video is up in the air, but I've been curious about other ARM SBCs like the Rock (Pi) series for a while now). I'd say I'd want to see you mess with and test Arch Linux ARM on the Pi 5, but there is no official image as of yet, and it's all manual setup (at least with the Pi 4) unless you use something like EndeavourOS which has an ARM64/RPi5 OS image available though you have to jump through a few hoops to get it installed. It's not impossible, but it's somewhat annoying. I'll be running my OSes I'll be testing on the Rock 5B on a 32 GB eMMC module I ordered.
ANYWAY, good video and congrats on the near 1M subs! I'm one of them! WHOOO~
It's so fascinating that there are so many linux distros that people can choose from. Since I met you online I've changed my mind over Linux OS and now it's my favourite, I couldn't even imagine it's potential.
The whole point of having a mind is that one can change it.
Once you're far enough down the Linux rabbit hole it's time to try the BSD rabbit hole
@@tylerdean980 Personally, I started using Gentoo Linux in 2003 (Linux generally back in 1996) and I've no reason to move from Gentoo, it does all I need an OS to do for me.
I do like BSD, I have a couple of machines running it but, for me, it's no competition to the flexibility of Gentoo.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I've used gentoo in the past, and it's not for me, but maybe with the additional binary packages that they're offering now I'll give it a try again. Do you know of any decent install scripts? I've done the standard install enough times that I'm over it
Congratulations on your 1M subscribers!!!
Thanks! :)
1million!!! Good job on achieving that!
1 million so close! well done.
(I'd love you to explore and share some how to's on home automation btw)
Wonderful coverage. You always manage to give me new knowledge on items and subjects that I previously thought I knew everything about. Great work,, and keep it coming, please!
Greetings Leslie.
As usual, an excellent presentation of the new OSes for RPi 5... and as I'd totally lost sight of OpenFyde, a very pertinent reminder as far as I'm concerned! While it's true that the appearance of the Raspberry Pi OS is somewhat dated, installing the "Pi-Apps" application can very easily solve the problem... among many other things.
I like the armbian theme, especially it doesn't animate when switching from one view to another (or at least this is what I saw in this video).
Thanks Chris!
Informative and entertaining as usual, party on the way. Thank you Cristopher.
Excellent stuff. I used to think this channel would be a little too nerdy. I thought the content would only be for serious geeks. However this video is just showing you the operating systems which can run on Raspberry Pi 5 which anyone who can operate a smartphone can understand. I like channels that mix it up between beginner and more advanced user content.
An informative video, as always. I haven’t decided if I’m going to jump on the Pi5 bandwagon, but if I do then I can refer back to this video.
Great video and explanation like always
1 MILLION!! 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATS !!
Kali 😮 naughty 😆 but interesting also the retro gaming
I often think briefly seeing what new software can run on new pi's adds a new audience to the hobby
Another GOOD ONE, Chris, appreciate this.
I'm recently really into the armbian as it's making all RK/Allwinner based Pis, like-Pis, and even more TV-boxes - to be practically useful, I don't know why it performs not that well on the powerful and brand new Pi5 though.
A really fun project is single-NIC-ROUTER - Any ARM SBC + Raspbian/Armbian + libvirt/KVM + openwrt (built for armvirt) + network bridges + vlan switch, actually I've been using one for literally 1 year as home major gateway, and with that right now to play your videos and post this message. Several more VMs or lxc containers can also be running on the same SBC host for some other tasks which you probably already know well, such as IPTV service.
Yes, a "router" can be made with just single line iptables/nftables on the host OS - without vm/container needed, but from performance aspect, the "software flow-offloading" in openwrt repo can easily double the NAT throughput even on libvirt then on 2 ARM cores of 4, interesting right?
Great videos.
I would love to see Manjaro on Raspberry pi 5.
I’ve been using raspberry pi OS almost exclusively for a while on my pi5.
I hadn’t checked what was on imager recently, will definitely be setting up a spare SD as recallbox
Just checking in from Thailand Sr. Chris... Hope all is well with you and your family.
7:50 Insane? ;-P Where as back on Windows 7 you get 2 options for task switching. ALT-tab or Windows-tab. I like to use both. The Windows-tab scrolling deck shows a huge *LIVE* view that makes it easier to find exactly what I want. And being a live view means I may not have to actually change to that window to see progress, etc. It saves me time.
It would be lovely to see Manjaro ARM for the Raspberry Pi 5. I did enjoy it a lot with my Pi 4B and with custom CFlags and things built from scratch accordingly one would be surprised about the performance.
Finally received my Pi 5. As expected it rocks! RPi OS is OK but I tried Armbian which ran very well. I am still hooked on MX and am in the process of trying it on my new toy. Always fun to get a new Raspberry Pi. Me and my toys, oh boy.
I completely agree with you about the app-switcher on raspi OS . It's just annoying after a few tries. Maybe one day I'll actually learn the skills to really use Kali Linux, but I guess the big one would be Linux Mint on a pi, although we might have to wait for pi 6 or 7 for that one. 😄
One feature of the new Raspberry Pi OS which I have been waiting for since Pi 3 is the inclusion of Widevine DRM in both the Firefox and Chromium browsers. This has allowed me to use the Pi 5 as an entertainment system for my exercise station watching Netflix or Hulu. It would be nice if you, in the future, mentioned whether an OS has out of the box support for Widevine or not.
always had tons of respect for you, let’s get to a million 💪
It's all about Cinnamon Pie...
64-bit RasPiOS Lite Bookworm with Cinnamon desktop. Stability of Pi OS, customizability of a modern desktop; runs like a champ n looks incredible!
Hi, Chris. Interesting subject this week. Food for thought… I loaded a cinnamon desktop on top of the rpi lite os. It works but I haven’t had time to fully explore the pros and cons. Maybe a subject for a future video as I know you like the linux mint os.
We viewers need to pay close attention lest we miss a bit of Chris’s deadpan humor. “107 points for Solitaire!”
Awesome, nearly a Mil. Haven't seen Stanley or Mr Scissors for a while (unless I missed an episode) I think they need a cameo at least or maybe wait till you un box your golden play button....cheers.
Greetings!
Good timing, I was actually googling this last night.
Very helpful video. Well explained and clear.
Nice job explaining the difference between OS 's I like the steaming and home assistance stuff to. 👍 👍
well done on one million subscribers Chris
I've got Libreelec running on a Pi 1 attached to an older TV. Also runs TVHeadend Server which gives me TV over ethernet, handy as saves on antenna problems.
Cool setup!
OUR CHRIS DID IT!!! ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!! 🎉🎉🎉
I did indeed! Here we are at 1M. There will be a video linked to it this weekend, and a community tab post in a few hours (we're currently on 1,000,007, and it is going up and down, so I'll wait until it is "safe". Thanks for all your support. :)
@@ExplainingComputers You are certainly welcome! I am absolutely proud of you and of being a part of this community. Congratulations!!!
Mentioning widevine support in the different operating systems as well as the option to use a different desktop with rpi OS would be useful.
I installed Twister OS on my Raspberry Pi 4b and it was fantastic. I particularly liked the variety of apps you could use and the excellent video playback speed and quality. When I eventually got a version of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS that worked properly it was able to produce video playback about as good as Twister OS. But, Twister OS looked much better. I can only imagine how good Twister OS would be on a Raspberry Pi 5. I'd love to see that some day if they can port it over.
I would be very interested in OS and IOT applications. Would be great to see you do that video.
Almost a million! Go CHRIS !!
Jeff Geerling brought me here and I am thrilled! New sub from me 🎉
Welcome aboard!
Once again a very interesting video.
I currently have a Raspberry Pi 400 and use some other different os for different days of the week and am wondering whether they'll all be able to run on a RPi 5.
Notably: Twister; Manjaro; Debian; Chromium os; Pop!; MX Linux: Ubuntu Cinnamon (with Mint wallpaper installed to pretend that it is Mint). I also have Fedora and openSUSE but they only seem to run at about 90% at best and have given me some issues. Also could not get Void-Linux to run at all... Looking forward to trying out "Armbian" soon though.
Very interested to know how the above might perform on a RPi 5 (or even a 500 - if one gets produced in the future).
Having mentioned Chrome OS Flex and showing a little of the great Libreelec, there lies the scope for another video about options for having a value media device under your TV, comparing ARM and X86 into the equation as well as the OS options.
Now this is a great video idea. Noted! :)
I bust out laughing when you made that joke 107 percent for the solitaire card game is included 😂.
Just subbed to help with the 1m milestone. (and of course to enjoy more videos.)
Would love for you to look into the bare metal stuff that is also done on raspberry pi. like BMC64.
Hi, is it ok to watch RUclips on 1.5x-2.0x Speed on Pi5?
Btw, thank you for your interesting overviews.
Nerves supports Pi 5 as well if anyone is interested in playing with an embedded OS
Just updated to the latest nerves with Livebook on the Pi 5. Arm64 is working great and jit is enabled.
Another entertaining and informative video, and I would very much like to see a review of the retro gaming OS.
I'd also like to see someone actually finish 3D printing that star-shaped chocolate cookie.
Excellent rundown.
Great video. Thank you. Patiently waiting for Moode for RPI5.
Great video as usual. It looks like the Pi 5 might be ready as a PC replacement. Have you tried (or do you know someone who has tried) the Lazarus IDE for Free Pascal on the Pi 5? Do you perhaps have a video on programming in languages like C, Pascal or Modula-2 on the Pi?
This is a very nice round-up of some of the most likely and useful alternatives, But how about installing the Proxmox Virtual Environment as the uber-O/S that would allow us to install ALL your other alternatives as virtual computers on the same hardware? Okay, I don't use it myself, and have no idea how feasible or not that might be, but it seems to be a very popular choice for creating virtual environments among the home-lab cognoscenti, which probably includes you as well, Dr. Barnatt.