Raspberry Pi Zero 2W optimised Darling OS. 

Finally a decent OS to run on my Pi 2 Zero W

Thank you for the review I got a few things to say that might help you regarding doas (opendoas) you can alias it to sudo if you prefer to have the sudo command but use the lighter alternative as for the taskbar poping down honestly yeah i completely understand that not everyone would like that if i had the option to i would make it resistance based where you would have to keep moving the mouse up to make it pop up so accidentally moving your mouse too far upwards wouldn't invoke it as for the start menu i also wanted to make a button trigger it but looking at it there doesn't seem to be a way to do that, i might look into it more and possibly find a way to make it work in the next release And as for chromium not minimizing that's just chromium for ya ; ) no clue if that's better than having it crash a few seconds on startup or crashing the moment you go to load any site but i can safely say that the web browsing experience is still horrible and i would not recommend it for the time being, it's only there because i can and because it's a necessity for a desktop environment as for package managment since this is an arch distro it doesn't really come with apt :P that is not something that i can change unless aliasing would be your jam overclocking and benchmarking to overclock you can simply use DarlingMenu same goes for benchmarking, note that glxgears is not an indicator of system performance it's just a very light and basic benchmark that i put there just to make sure that the gpu wasn't dying and well because it's the lightest benchmark that i could run on anything, in the near future i might add more stuff to the benchmarking utility such as a cpu bench before the gpu one and maybe add an optional more stressful benchmark if you feel like it, but honestly i think that it gets the job done :P also you forgot to include the overclock (You need to uncomment #include /configs/pi02.txt in config.txt) As for video performance it did do 1080 60 for me with a bit of spikes here and there, so i assume it might be your overclock? Chromium still crashes alot here too lee, trying to mitigate that as much as possible however i don't think this poor 15$ computer will ever run chromium properly no matter what flags you give it And by the looks of it yeah that overclock that you applied is not helping the situation XD Never seen such a major graphical glitch before lol

This OS is interesting, and I can see its potential with the PI Zero 2W. Personally, I'd like to see my PI Zero 2W perform similar to a desktop. Looking forward to a follow up video.

Looks like a cool OS for this tiny computer 👍

If you like neofetch (or any other program) running right away with every new terminal, edit the ".bashrc" file in your user directory and add the command(s) that you want to run at the end. It's a file that gives environment parameters for interactive non-login Bash shells.

Thanks for the demo, Lee, I definitely want to give this a go myself. It's such a shame the Pi Zero 2 W only has 512MB RAM, just doubling that would have made SO much difference to the performance, particularly with web browsers.

Yay for heat sinks! I put them on the plastic cases of Rokus because those suckers get hot!

your wallpaper on the wall indicates you have good taste lol

Update for those who are still interested in this I’ve personally moved away from anything rpi related since this was made I’ve also moved away from discord If and when i get to reviving this project ill be sure to host it on gh Cheers

3:58 You can change #doas as #sudo. By adding this line in (.bashrc) dot bashrc file, located in home directory. alias sudo="doas"

I was not ready for darling in the frank desktop logo! XD

i have 2 zero 2 w's so i been looking for projects. i want one for desktop and one for retro gaming, so having a low resource os like this would be so ideal. ill be keeping an eye on it thank you

I like the idea of a fluid, usable desktop workflow on a graham cracker. TinyCore won my heart for that as well, but this is a more sensible approach. The fact it's based on Arch is interesting, I swear they would have gone with something more minimal like Alpine or Void.

Thanks for the video! Always inspirational.

Nice. Now if only we could buy the hardware.

Improvement suggestions: disable data persistence (Tails feature Sun Knudsen on RU-vid shows how to do on other Linux) plus Secure Kali Tails features for security and privacy, and put LUKS (LUKS boot screen, but let us disable regular login if we want).

cool

I definitely like the idea of having a lightweight distro specifically geared towards the Pi Zero 2. I've been working on something similar. It's based on Raspberry Pi OS Lite, but uses ICEWM as the Window Manager. After theming, running ssh, VNC server, Compton, Rofi, plank as a doc etc., it boots in about 150MB RAM, leaving as much as possible for applications. Whilst Icewm is very basic out of the box, I've managed to set it up to work as close to a "full distro" as possible. It looks pretty good and is very fast (for a Pi zero 2). As for browsers, I've got Chromium ( which works, but isn't great). I also use Dillo, Uzbl, NetSurf, Links, Links2 and Puffin. Whilst these are all very fast, they're they've each got various drawbacks - Some aren't modern, but implement old JavaScript standards, others don't support JavaScript at all. Links is a purely Text browser, but surprisingly useful once you get used to it. Links2 is similar, but also has a graphics mode which can be used within a TTY terminal using the frame buffer, which is fantastic. Puffin probably gives the fastest experience in a modern browser though, but it's obviously doing the heavy lifting on the server. It's been fun to figure out how to squeeze as much from a Pi Zero 2 as possible and has yielded a very usable little pocket computer.

where can we find a Pi Zero 2w nowadays?

Nice effort by the people doing this! I'd definitely be interested to try it out. Why is sudo becoming doas?

Yeah it's an arch Linux system so the file system will be a bit different and Pacman -Syyu Pacman -S instead of apt apt-get upgrade update install etc. Check your function keys too you might get different shells on f1-f4 etc. Many years since I played with arch check in with the wiki it was very good from memory.

would love to try this .. will jump on the discord

Anime is Evil gateway drug for Hentai

I prefer "shinji -kun!" rather than "daarinn" trash but it is a good stuff for "zero w 2-chan" better than nothing

When typed Pacman in the terminal, it told me that this is a arch-based distro and not a debian-based Distro, user beware because arch-based distros can break with a single package update.

You can install sudo if you prefer it, but I would recommend creating an alias instead. Add the following line to ~/.bashrc: alias sudo="doas" I think that will work, been a while since I made one. :D

Running a video at 1920x1080 isn't hard for a Pi Zero 2 W. Even the older (and MUCH slower) Pi Zero can do it fine, as it's done in hardware. I use them for kiosks using my custom software, where they play videos and interactive apps all day long with no overclock. There are example programs installed on every pi to show the GPU effects, like running 1080 video on rotating 3D objects etc with only 2% CPU usage, since it's mostly handled on the videocore.

For terminal installs, why not simply create a desktop icon that can open terminal, add the command with the only input required by the user is to type the application name required.

Looks good but I’ll probably stick to a more stable OS for now. Although I haven’t yet tried the pi zero 2 in comparison with other SBC’s I have including the BPI m2 zero (which is available mostly) where the pi’s all of them are very hard to get in US, without scalpers. Pi OS has worked well for my most my pi’s (very slow on pi 3 a+) but I do hope there are some tweaks to this review OS because it does look cool. I don’t plan on over clocking any of my units because it can and will catch on fire 🔥, usually starting at power source / too many friends lost their pi zeros, 3’s and 4’s catch on fire due to over clocking. They may or may not have known any better? Folks try to crank up the power for running bigger retro games - but to me not worth frying up the pi for a slight better fps. Especially in this hot summer weather - not good idea I also just got a tinker board so That will be fun. I wish I can understand the coding better - like I couldn’t get a 2” inch screen to work at all in a pi zero (and a pi b+) / tried to install drivers and supposed to have done so but any small (TFT) screen off gpio will not work, I have like two different ones and neither works - I can’t figure it out and gave up. Tried to make minty pi (altoids can zero unit) but it seems the information for this project has sailed out the ship windows long ago, I can’t find help anymore. Anyways good video

Been waiting for this long, ps nope not what i wanted

Why? You don't you need the computer to be tiny if you're just going to connect a large screen and keyboard to it. Plus even if it's fast it's not going to be a good desktop experience at 1280x720. It's probably 10 years since I had to use such a low resolution for a desktop PC.

Some Users doesn't understand what is Zero 2 means

try "vblank_mode=0 glxgears" for disable vertical sync for glxgears

Can you do a video Installing Wine and box86?!

beans

where can i download this operating system

Can you please explain how to use the announce:true feature in homeassistant media_player.play_media service?? Thanks in advance

the heat sink is larger tha the pi zero itself. :)

Can it be used in zx spectrum next as accelerator and zx HDMI? Will it encode video output to avi file?

Doas is "do as" 🤣🤣

It seems like an interesting operating system, I'm going to try it, where can it be downloaded? Discord? No thanks, I lost all interest

Is there anyway to get a image of this still i canr find it anywhere online.

Cool

Can you tell me which operating system use for raspberry pi zero 2W

Witch os best for run qt on raspberry zero 2w

Donde se puede descargar?

too bad we still get RPI's for a reasonable price still

Still can't get these things. Can this OS run on a gpu?

I'll never understand Linux devs obsession with putting menu bars on top. It's incredibly annoying.

What is the URL with information about the Pi Zero 2 optimized OS?

awesome vid, great demo. I'm setting up a couple pi zero 2 w's and would really like to try this os! i can't find either a "pi world" or "wor" discord server (though, to be fair, i'm def at boomer-level when it comes to discord), but i did join a raspberry pi community on there. i've searched all channels on that community for "darling os" and "zero 2 w", but there's no info. at this point i'm just strolling down the street shouting "amir!" every few seconds in hopes that i'll find this person and they'll grace me with an image.. it's over a year since this video was posted - anyone know if this optimized os exists anywhere?

How about Raspberry Pi zero 2w running Android with Google Playstore? Is it possible?

so its arch then?

Where to get it?

How can download OS

Download link for Darling OS pls

where is the download?

alias sudo='doas'

doas = do as

Can anybody confirm if it can run youtube videos in 720p ? Can it run a Puffin browser ?

Hi, could you please try Puppy Linux on pi zero 2w it will work like wonders and very usable it will be... Could you please demonstrate that ?!? Puppy Linux

Can we get a link to the os?