@@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.🎉🎶
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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!!!
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 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.
--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 RU-vidr. Your information was accurate a few years ago.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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
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!
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~
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!
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 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. 😄
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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 RU-vid-streaming Nerd's Test. Thanks for that. And as always, thanks for all your hard work and informative videos Chris. Take Good Care.
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
Hello Chris my friend. Hope you doing well. I see your channel is currently 998K. We are so closer to victory lane And The Gold Play Button Is Waiting For you :)
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.
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.
How the OS looks and the task switcher look can both easily be solved due to the simple fact that Linux is easily customised. There is NO excuse to have a dull looking OS! I personally do not like that version of Ubuntu and would go for the MATE desktop if I were to put it on a Pi.
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.
No Endeavour OS or MX Linux? Ubuntu gets my vote as the best at this point in time, but I certainly hope Manjaro starts supporting the pi 5 in the near future.
Interesting. I have stopped buying Pis as I have 3xPi4s which is plenty. More importantly a n100 CPU NUC type PC with 16GB RAM and a 500GB NVME can be had for about £160, e,g. Trigkey. The n100 supports hardware encoding (Quicksync h.264) at 10x speed. The Pi 5 can’t match the n100 in FFmpeg. By the time you add in all the extra Pi5 options you need to match n100 NUC, you might as well buy the n100 as it has better software support.
The pi company can't compete with China just flooding the market with these little mini pcs. That's the idea though. force any competition out and do with the market what you will.
You can pick up used HP, Dell and Lenovo SFF PCs on your favourite auction site for £30-£40 that have 3rd or 4th generation Core i5 and i7 CPUs in them that run Linux perfectly well. With the brainless lemmings rushing to upgrade to Windows 11, there's plenty of cheap hardware out there that still runs far better than some cut-down CPU on some Chinese mini-PC rubbish with it's dodgy CCP firmware built into it - and you save on landfill too.
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.
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 find on the Pi4 there is a huge disparity between the responsiveness of the system when running on an SD card vs a USB connected SSD. I can only imagine the difference is much greater on a Pi5.
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.
Sunday Greetings. Chrome OS is becoming the Linux distro to run on humble hardware. Out-of-the-box OS support seems promising for the Pi 5. An enticing sneak-peek Chris B. Thanks.
