10 Alternative Raspberry Pi Operating Systems

[@danwood_uk]

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[@finnleylondon2755]

sorry to be so off topic but does anybody know a tool to get back into an instagram account? I was stupid forgot the password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me

[@heidirichter]

That last OS option reminds me so much of me trying to run Windows 3.1 on PCTask on my A1200 with only a RAM expansion back in the day, haha.

[@kaminutter]

A nice video, BBC Basic can be ran from RiscOS by using the star command BASIC, so if you want you can write your own games for the PI fairly easily.

[@wisteela]

There is also a great BBC Micro emulator available for RiscOS Open.

[@xXTheoLinuxXx]

@@wisteela that seems to be nice! My first computer was an Acorn Electron (I still have it). So I would like to give Risc OS (with the beeb emulator) a shot :)

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

RiscOS takes me right back to the last year of primary school when the class saw an Archimedes for the first time - mind blown 💥

[@wisteela]

Even the sound sounds the same. Try the demo Maestro tunes.

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

@Daniel DoranI've just tried It and it took me 10 seconds to download... have another go!

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

@@wisteela Maestro was also memorable... I wasn't musically gifted so never made proper use of its capabilities.

[@marcdraco2189]

RiscOS is the dog's bollocks. It really spanks Linux it's just a shame there is such a small amount of good software for it.

[@Soruk42]

It's also worth mentioning that RISC OS was nippy at 8MHz (RISC OS 2 on a A310 - that thing was ready to use before the monitor had warmed up), it really flew on the RiscPC and the StrongARM upgrade made it seem unbeatable. And now on the Pi we're running it at at least 700MHz - it's the only OS that still feels fast on the original Raspberry Pi from 2012.

[@ninline2000]

I just installed the 64bit version of Ubuntu Mate on my Pi4. It's pretty sweet, I'm using it now and so far it's flawless despite being a beta build. Next up is Amiberry.

[@TigZip72]

I've done exactly the same, super impressed. Once they get wifi going i'll be smitten!

[@NijimaSan]

I am so out of the loop. I’ve never even heard of Raspberry Pi until his video. I need to get back in the game.

[@matheustran8009]

Ngl, that’s pretty impressive

[@marcdraco2189]

Dan - Batocera is a really neat addition to the games emulators system. It's surprisingly well done.

[@mikemcdonald2755]

Batocera is very beautiful!! I really love it!

[@james-br2gm]

I was hoping to see recommendations for secure operating systems e.g. which run all connections over TOR and encrypt your data by default as well as making verifying PGP signatures easy.

[@fmlazar]

I don't think that what you want exists.

[@Tall_Order]

During the time your schools were using Acorn Archimedes, my school used Apple II/e. I was surprised when one of my classes got a Apple II GS. I thought it was a Mac at first. My first time seeing a Mac was the LLC and it was in the school media center.I used to skip lunch hour just to mess with that. Then one day I saw a Mac Plus. Boy did I toy around with that! I even yelled at another student for deleting the System Folder contents. I helped the media center fix it. I even made copies of the startup disks and passed one to each teacher.

[@CMOS-li5cp]

You missed Manjaro with full desktop with xfce or kde plasma also ubuntu server and you went over the option of using SSD either SATA or NVMe with a usb bridge now that RaspberryPi supports USB boot.

[@JosepaulJenson]

You missed Twister OS from this list....I don’t know why, but it is a great OS for Raspberry pi

[@SimisFul]

Raspbian XP is kind of an early TwisterOS, maybe he started making this video long ago. Anyway, it is still a shame he didn't cover TwisterOS, it is probably the best pi OS yet.

[@josepauljenson8789]

Simisful Yeah true, I was also amazed by seeing the Twister OS. Cool stuff

[@OggieDoggie]

Yeah twister os is an amazing pi4 is. It's become my daily driver and have it loaded to usb ssd. Then if I need a different os I can either pop in a micro sd or another usb ssd with another os. But I think it will be a little while until twister os is beat. Although my 2nd favorite is fenix os that had a lot of little improvements. The only problem I have with it is trying to get an English version of the website and documentation so I went back to twister

[@doomsk888]

I had the same feeling! glad that someone also reminded of twister OS

[@proges]

Raspberry in particular, is giving me that feeling I had with the amiga in the old days ... change "floppy disks" with the sd card. A hardware not so powerful but powerful enough to have everything comfortable and try in every way to improve it to make it perform at its best. A whole community more focused on a single hardware, accessible to all. I especially like how everyone is focused on rasberry pi os, which then the improvements are also reflected on the other compatible linux distros ... I don't mean a blasphemy, but in my opinion, it really reincarnates the spirit of amiga as community, I mean the feeling of when I was a teenager and I had a lot of friends focused on that hardware that was the amiga exchanging software and advice to improve it and improve ourselves ... that was the real "Amiga" spirit ... which in Italian is similar to "Amico" means "friend" of which I am realizing that I am really nostalgic.

[@pearcomputers]

isn't 1t just... not just rpi but the whole sbc thing :) all very friendly :D

[@silurust]

Gentoo was a great idea to try. Thanks for the tip. Now, next to Manjaro for ARM, it offers a very good alternative for everyday desktop computing on Raspberry Pi.

[@achimwasp]

Manjaro KDE is the only OS that works smoothly on my Pi4 (on SSD), runs my ultrawide monitor at 50Hz and detects my bluetooth mouse and keyboard on first try. And I tried a lot of distributions. Now I can code away on the Pi using VSCode with clojure, python3 etc - with the Vim extension, of course ;-). Frees up my Win10 machine for gaming and Netflix and my iMac for photo and video editing.

[@silurust]

Yes, Manjaro with LXDE is the fastest of all the distributions I have tested so far. (as I am using it with memory card, this configuration is too slow for KDE). The only problem is that pandoc and a good part of R markdown are out of the question due to lack of libghc availability. Otherwise, this is the distribution I like best.

[@ActionRetro]

I can't wait until Haiku is working on Raspi!

[@HikingFeral]

For the latest one it's more like the cost of several video games lol but I do really want one.

[@jj-or2jn]

Dan, have you ever thought about getting a MiSTer FPGA set up?

[@danwood_uk]

I should have one soon :)

[@one_b]

Need a Pi now to try RiscOS. West coast USA over here... we used Apple II clones and then Macs in elementary school... blech. My Amiga 500 crushed anything and everything they could do except word processing. (I admit the Macs had awesome keyboards to type on.)

[@nunyobiznez875]

13:13 So if it takes several minutes for Windows to respond to an icon click, then it sounds like performance is on par with the desktop version :-) I'm not sure why anyone would want to run Windows, especially in a performance constrained environment, and considering that it'll never be compatible with x86 binaries, which means Linux will always have more software. I guess to each their own. Anyway, I was surprised that you mentioned ARM Windows even, but not AROS at all. I've not tried it personally, but there is supposedly an ARM based version of AROS. I'd love to see that running on a Raspberry Pi 4, if it's possible, especially if it can run classic Amiga games, with the appropriate ROMs, of course.

[@MrStephen182]

Even if the PI could run Windows 10 just fine one day what's the point? It defeats the purpose of having a PI as Windows 10 is not really teaching anyone anything about how computers work, how to code or do cool things with computers. There are far better OS to put on a pie than Windows 10. Why anyone is trying to get Windows 10 to work on a pie is beyond on me.

[@mintyfresh3152]

@@MrStephen182 I can't imagine anyone would want to use it as a daily driver but the fun is making stuff do what it wasn't intended to do.

[@ocudagledam]

Haha, I remember installing Windows 10 IoT Core onto a Pi 3 (I think, if not earlier) just to miff a Linux loving coworker. :D The installation itself was a breeze, although I don't remember doing anything with it afterwards - it was all done to get the man's reaction. Good times! :D

[@paulstubbs7678]

Love your Amiga pi case - pity the keys do nothing, not that keys of that size would be of use for anything other than aiming a toothpic at.

[@judgewest2000]

I tell you the OS to run on the Rasberry Pi starting next year, MacOS Big Sur

[@judgewest2000]

@BorisaRed fingers crossed!!

[@sprockkets]

Never going to happen.

[@mikemcdonald2755]

My favorite is (Twister 2.0) it comes with all the Raspbian X themes, like Windows 95, XP, Windows 10, IOS, Ect... It also has Android, Chromium, Retropie, Pi Hole, Box 86, Steam, lots of extra apps! With Berry Boot, you can have multiple OS's! It has everything I want on my Pi!

[@BlUsKrEEm]

I wasn't aware there was a Basic based OS! That's awesome thanks for sharing! Brings me back to the C16

[@jalzate]

The specs of ichigo are disappointing, 1KB for programs. Look for the maximite colour 2 computer, a single board ARM computer that boots and runs a modern BASIC at a extraordinary speed. Someone is even porting wolf3d to run in interpreted BASIC.

[@jalzate]

Or try combian, it boots straight into c64

[@skilgannon1971]

Cheers Dan, informative as always! Going to check out Volumio for my Pie 4. I too have a good few Pie's kicking about. One in an A600 case running Amiberry, one in my mini arcade machine, one running an LCD Scroller Matrix and another 3 kicking about doing nothing lol. Great wee machines!

[@MrGamer1992]

I have Ubuntu Mate running on my Rpi4 and so far it runs pretty good. At least for web browsing.

[@PiotrKula1]

Windows 10 actually runs really well on pi 4 and 3 as long asnyou usenthe usb to sata. Just he other day a patch was made to the installers which lets you boot direct from USB. Also there is a very easy installer

[@bobvark]

Can you provide a link with directions?

[@infotruther]

Are all of these apps available on an SD card or do i have to download them all individually? Tyvm

[@simonj48]

I really miss floppy disks. If there was an amiga emulator that would allow me to use a usb floppy drive, so when I put a floppy disk in there with a disk.txt file containing the file name of what the disk image is to load, then load the adf from the sdcard in the pi. That'd be great if any one wants to make it happen, or knows how to make that happen.

[@jayantbarthwal4470]

How to create our own OS for resberry pi, if I want to create a pdf reader like kindle paper white for commercial products

[@simonj48]

Since Apple has announced future Mac computers will be ARM based, just like Raspberry Pi. It shows that not only are the Raspberry Pi more advanced than Apple right now... but also that at some point you'll be able to hack Mac OS on to a Raspberry Pi. Time to start looking for Raspberry Pi Apple themed cases.

[@linuxization4205]

Picintosh!

[@alerey4363]

I listen to your Retrohour podcast too, great work!

[@DaveF.]

Gentoo? On a raspberry Pi?? That's work fine right up to the point where you try and emerge webkit or libreoffice, or anything a similar size. They must be supplying pre-compiled binaries for that...

[@oscarfeatherstone6688]

Thanks for this. I've been looking for some more pi projects. Love the retro hour podcast by the way.

[@JoloNavarro]

Thank you for this! Really informative ❤️

[@scify6278]

hi, I am struggling to find the amiga pack, the links are broken, any help would be grateful. TIA

[@DavidMarshall15]

Seen a couple of videos showing Win10 on a pi4 with 3G RAM accessible, looks a lot snappier.

[@patti4832]

I tried it with SSD and it works

[@System64-Fumo]

and ive seen a couple with 8gb of ram and improoved sd card drivers

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Dood that is nuts! We need a retro C64 case for it.

[@KenJackson_US]

Does the network work under RiscOS? Another reviewer couldn't get it to work.

[@CesareVesdani]

RISC OS 3.11 runs very well on Raspberry Pi.

[@RomanMcClaine]

No love for FreeBSD or NetBSD (not sure if OpenBSD has an aarch64 version yet)?

[@mickm234]

I need to learn about Games Emulators. Grandson 5, ‘is it really a computer, it’s tiny, woooow’ 😀

[@dezibeldani]

Notes for me: - Raspian XP emulates Windows XP, with a Windows 98 emulator - IchigoJam BASIC boots into a BASIC interpreter - Volumio is an audio player - AmiBerry emulates an Commodore Amiga - RiscOS emulates an Acorn Archimedes - GenPi is recommended for Pi 4 - RetroPi is recommended for gaming - Windows 10 may work on a Pi 3, needs adaption to work on a Pi 4

[@gamepad3173]

Amiberry is going to come in handy should I wanna build an amiga, or even check out RISCOS or even Chromium OS (if I'm looking to just chill and watch youtube). a couple of OS's I recommend are Apple Pi OS, Twister OS and Apple 2 Pi for Apple computers.

[@nahco3994]

Is GPU support still a problem with alternative OSs for the Raspberry Pi 4? That used to be the biggest roadblock for stuff like Android on the Pi 3, making it run extremely slow.

[@harryragland7840]

Most of these are just variants of Linux. I have used the Ichigo Jam. It is a very 70's micro computer basic. On the other hand, it boots very fast, is simple and stays out of your way. If you consider that the Pi was conceived for tinkering rather than productivity, we now find ourselves with very heavy OSes running on our Pi boards and the Pi's tinkering role falling to Arduino. Running LED projects with PWM settings to decrease LED brightness, you can see noticeable flickering caused by all of the OS overhead. If we're not doing projects with our Pi boards why are we not just using cheap 5 year old PCs or hacking our old cell phones?

[@nageshraut3302]

Nice demonstration

[@Lukes-Tech]

There is USB Support for windows 10 on the Pi 4 now.

[@ozziearchangel9096]

Hmm currently like the raspberry os and twister os. Both of which I hope have stable 64bit support asap as it has been too long already

[@marcello4258]

I guess the problem with running w10 on a pi4 is not due to the cpu power or ram or whatsoever.. i guess it is more to the IO on the SD card since windows10 writes a lot on the harddrive and access randomly everywhere.. check in the taskmanager the load on your "harddrive" i guess it is 100% all the time and the cpu is just idleling..

[@biggalute0075]

I have had good luck with Arch linux both command line and with XFCE. Runs quick and very stable.

[@LadyNicola]

Asking around. How to hook up my DSS8+ Sampler to a Raspberry Pi??

[@stevieray2804]

I looked at RiscOS a few months ago and I like it, but the big drawback for me was that you could not connect wirelessly to the Internet, you could only use an ethernet cable

[@dr.mikeybee]

I was looking at comparisons of Pis with Sun Sparc systems. The Pis are much better computers than many of the very expensive servers running fortune 500 companies back in the 1990s.

[@Gameplayer55055]

Raspbian is nice, but it crashed after year, and i must reinstall it like windows. Maybe it's problem with stupid apt-get and kernel modules, because apt-get update creates these problems, that i can see in logs. Manjaro, based on arch(system that will make your eyes red) is more stable, and all bugs i create accidentally. System updates here is safer than on RPI.

[@JerryWoo96]

Which os is arm64 based and includes a minimal desktop (without pre-installed sw/bloatware) compatible with pi3?

[@derkommentator8226]

Where I can get Raspbian XP?

[@mbernardi1961]

Yeah that link doesn't work, or at least the link to the download site from the link you give doesn't work.

[@KenJackson_US]

Hey! What happened to my BSD comment? How about one of the BSDs? FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD?

[@Theenemy38]

do they have a version of raspian xp for normal x86 laptops and netbooks?

[@marcello4258]

where do we get the kickstart roms for the amiberry? didn't catch it

[@ForOdinAndAsgard]

Cloanto.

[@faoltaem]

Yes, I'm a little late to the party, but I love how you say rausbury.

[@iaingeorge8608]

What is the Brilliant Pi Amiga Pack - 30gb you mentioned?

[@moronicron]

Yeah I wanna know to.

[@jalzate]

Me too

[@johnm2012]

I'd be interested to see how you get on with Ubuntu Mate 20.04. I can't get it to work on a Pi 3B+. The first boot looks promising and runs a setup utility (language, timezone, username, etc). It then thinks about it for 20 minutes and says it needs to reboot. And that's the end of it. I was trying the 32-bit version.

[@LeslieLanagan]

Have you tried this? ubuntu-mate.org/ports/raspberry-pi/

[@gustavohg33]

Any Android for using in the raspberry 4 that Works fine without any major problem ir bugs?

[@bes12000]

Thanks for this, I bought a raspberry pi 4B 8 gig edition, it was a kit, but I didn't like the default OS, so I tried Ubuntu, I kept running into weird glitches with stuff not supporting the ARM processor on it with Ubuntu, like it wouldn't even install VLC media player no matter what I tried and it was really slow, but after watching this it looks like Genpi64 might work, as it includes all the stuff I was trying to get running on Ubuntu 64bit, im flashing an SD card now with Genpi64, will see how it goes.

[@Chris-op7yt]

i'm still looking for a solution to painlessly back up (and be able to restore) about 3 iphones and an ipad, without having to do it via itunes on a mac/pc, as that's not a lasting solution

[@fbseducareer5441]

Did you ever try out AROS on the Raspberry Pi?

[@jalzate]

Does it work on raspberry pi? I was trying to find out on their site and kept going in circles with no clear answer.

[@chrisshaw451]

Just read this from somebody who tried the Pi Amiga Pack, any ideas anyone ? I get the following error when trying to load a lot of the WHDLOAD games - DOS-Error #205 (object not found) on reading "devs:kickstarts/rom.key. I also had ROMS from another source and get the same error

[@frankn5216]

What's is the best OS for Older people and those how don't care to learn, balanced with the risk they can get into?

[@hexa3389]

For the raspberry pi? The default raspbian works fine.

[@LordToxygene]

What about Windows 10 IOT? I've heard it installs and runs much better than regular Windows 10.

[@mhuk1220]

Is that pi heatsink on wrong .?

[@brianhedley5139]

Recommend looking at Manjaro ARM for the Pi which is based on the Arch system

[@bes12000]

Thanks, I will check this out also after I try genpi64

[@pmwizard48]

Does the rams Ian Xperia’s run windows programs?

[@MrStephen182]

I run Manjaro OS on my PI 4 which is a Arch based OS if you don't know. A few of these OS defeat the purpose of having an PI if if they have everything pre installed. Even if the PI could run Windows 10 just fine one day what's the point? Again it's defeats the purpose of having a PI as Windows 10 is not really teaching anyone anything about how computers work, how to code or do cool things with computers. There are far better OS to put on a pie than Windows 10. Why anyone is trying to get Windows 10 to work on a pie is beyond on me.

[@mattivirta]

only alternative os has cromium if not have slowly maybe can use daily table raspi pc. raspi3 need be

[@CJWarlock]

Great episode, very informative. Thanks. :)

[@AnOfficialAndrewFloyd]

How about Atari ST / TT / Falcon030 emulation?

[@proboy9817]

Hay can you try out ReactOS they have a arm build

[@ZeroWalker26]

I have a pi 2,2b and 3b my plan is getting a 4 but im still waiting for better emulator support for like the sharp x68k,pc-98,dos,pc enigne, Or maybe hope for a stronger Pi that also can run PS2 emulation rely well.

[@pnvgordinho]

Amiberry looks cool. And that mini Amiga looks cute. Now we need a mini cd32. Oficial.

[@nikobellic570]

I was looking for someone to acknowledge and compliment that Amiga mini case and now I can relax

[@mecrumbly429___4]

Where in hell is DietPi?

[@abymohanan9403]

Thank you so much for this video

[@MK-tc1on]

I think there is an android os called lineage that runs on 3 and 4

[@Soruk42]

Windows 10. The code executes, though "run" might not be quite the right word. "Slow leisurely walk" seems more appropriate.

[@bcgibson22]

It's amazing how many there are!!

[@wisteela]

Great stuff. And nice to see somebody else that has fitted the Heatsink XL sideways.

[@muntakimurrahaman6544]

Can Big sur run on raspberry?

[@dhirajrajput1829]

Nice video demonstration!! Thanks..

[@SCIENindustries]

What about windows 10 IoT and WebOS?

[@linuxstreamer8910]

emulationstation is awesome it is the frontend of retropie

[@lama_course4524]

He says he is a massive fan which is what you need to overclock it to the point he stated in this video

[@GarrisonStudios]

I've watched and rewatched with subtitles on and the subtitles say and I definitely hear and see that Nord VPN is going to protect me with their cyber sex suite????

[@LeslieLanagan]

I thought so, too, and I actually HAVE NordVPN and CyberSec.

[@АвтомобильныйПрограммист]

Pretty cool thanks!!

[@WilhelmDriscoll]

For the console/arcade emulation side I usually prefer Lakka over RetroPie

[@snoflahke6575]

Manjaro Arm isn't mentioned!????!???!

[@Tall_Order]

When you were opening the windows 10 calculator,. my multimedia keyboard has a button that launches the calculator. I booped it and it came up before yours finished. lol

[@johntoohey8899]

arch arm. I like it because it is highly customizable.

[@greentilde4751]

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[@blackdragon19809]

window 10 is getting better still has a little bugs but it's all good Iv'e been experimenting with it myself .

[@woodand]

ummmmm werent most of them linux based... ? so therefore the same OS ? how about Plan9 ? Haiku ? inferno ?

[@cyberstar251]

yeah google stopped support for chromium it seems, none of the google functions that it has work anymore.