Raspberry Pi 5 Operating Systems 

You so deserve a Gold Play Button. Let's throw a party next week.

It can't be long now. A mega-subscribers channel. Go Chris.

I am watching your much anticipated video on my PI-5 right now!!!

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.

My favourite no-nonsense youtube channel :)

Ah Sunday morning sipping a good cup of coffee and watching a wonderful ExplainingComputers video.

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.🎉🎶

I'm using MX 23.2 on my Pi 5, and I'm very pleased with it.

Almost on the Million subs, so glad for you and your channel, I hope you get there soon !

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!

I tried Ubuntu for the first time on my Pi 5. Thanks for your review. It is indeed a very pleasing experience for my go & chess needs. Silent and power efficient client.

Looks like the raspberry pi will soon be my desktop machine, getting quite advanced. I love seeing all these os's, fascinating, thanks Chris!

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 RU-vidr now

1M ! A well deserved achievement sir. My deepest congrats 🎉🎉🎉

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!

I literally started looking for something like this yesterday, and today here it is! Definitely needed this. Thank you!

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.

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.

Learned a lot about new Operating Systems. Great video!

Another fantastic video! I had not known about the FydeOS which I find incredibly interesting. Always high quality narrative and presentation my friend.

You've packed so much info into one video that Ill be watching this múltiple times. I'm still in awe at the Raspberry pie since when it first came into market, but even more so now after watching this video. It is unbelievable that this much computing power can fit inside a doll house. Thank you for bringing this to light. You inspire so many ideas that I can't enumerate.

Congratulations on 1M. Big accomplishment!

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.

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

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!

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!!!

We viewers need to pay close attention lest we miss a bit of Chris’s deadpan humor. “107 points for Solitaire!”

A million subs can't be too far away. Great overview!

Good timing, I was actually googling this last night.

Informative and entertaining as usual, party on the way. Thank you Cristopher.

1 Million Subscribers! Well done Christopher!! :D

So close to 1 million, keep it up Chris!

Love seeing great videos each week always something new and exciting Peter. Many thanks Mike

Very well done video as always, Keep up the Great work. :)

1million!!! Good job on achieving that!

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.

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.

Congratulations on reaching 1 million subscribers!!

Great video. Thank you. Patiently waiting for Moode for RPI5.

Excellent film, as always. Thanks.

--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.

Congrats on the 1,000,000 subs!

Thanks for the shoutout !!

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.

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!

Almost a million! Go CHRIS !!

always had tons of respect for you, let’s get to a million 💪

@explainingcomputers, great content!

1 million so close! well done. (I'd love you to explore and share some how to's on home automation btw)

1 MILLION!! 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATS !!

Sunday time and it's about raspberry pi 5 os nice ! You're the best have a nice one

Finally the video I was waiting for ❤

congrats on a mil subs

Congratulations on your 1M subscribers!!!

1M time! Well done sir :)

Nice job explaining the difference between OS 's I like the steaming and home assistance stuff to. 👍 👍

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....

well done on one million subscribers Chris

Thanks Chris, very informative

Thanks you, I can see applications for many of these OSs...

you're such a nerd, it's fantastic, don't stop

Great Job 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.

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~

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.

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!

A impressive and informative video, and some gold soon i guess.

I'm consuming many cups of tea while watching our Sunday ec vid.

Thanks for the video sir 😊

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.

Thank I'll check out some of these OS's.

Very close to 1 million subs!

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 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.

Awesome video

My pi 5 just arrived so I found this very interesting ,, thanks for all the great content 👍👍👍

OUR CHRIS DID IT!!! ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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.

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!)

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 love this video! I use Raspberry Pi OS with Cinnamon DE.

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.

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.

Just checking in from Thailand Sr. Chris... Hope all is well with you and your family.

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

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.

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.

Thaks excelent is the best class for sunday

So close to 1 million subscribers now!

Sunday evening just got better!

Jeff Geerling brought me here and I am thrilled! New sub from me 🎉

Great work... Thank you.

RU-vid 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!

Thank you for the video! - 2k more Subscribers to go, what a journey to 1 Million. ⛅

Great video, tempted to pick up a pi 5 (assuming they are available)!

The Kali distribution in the Pi OS menu will make setup much easier for my classes.

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).

Thanks Prof!