Raspberry Pi 5 Operating Systems

[@Chris.Brisson]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

Fingers crossed we will make it by next Sunday! :)

[@JohnDunne001]

@@ExplainingComputers I think we will! You deserve it - can't wait to see that magic 1M :D

[@Lampe2020]

@@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 :)

[@Flashman36175]

@@ExplainingComputersBe sure to invite Stanley the Knife, and Mr. Scissors

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

I'll be fashionably late (curse you, daylight savings) but I'll bring the snacks!

[@irishjohn6900]

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

[@johnroberts3824]

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.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Excellent! :)

[@robinbrowne5419]

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 👍

[@UnknownPlayer45824]

lol same here

[@blueconcretezebra]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

:)

[@SelfIndulgentGamer]

My favourite no-nonsense youtube channel :)

[@tubegor]

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.🎉🎶

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this. Party is indeed soon it seems! :)

[@BsktImp]

What's your (general ofc) security set up?

[@floatingbonesjournal]

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]

Fantastic suggestion! Seconding request for Mathematica walkthrough on the raspberry pi

[@AlwaysCensored-xp1be]

Been running Ollama and many LMM AI. Processing with Deep vision runs well too. Will try Wolfram/Mathmatica next.

[@floatingbonesjournal]

​@@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.

[@esra_erimez]

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

[@RoboNuggie]

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....

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support. I'm sure that FreeBSD will get there.

[@paulorito2303]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks. :)

[@SusanAmberBruce]

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

[@awesome-3310]

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

[@jpmyers6950]

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

[@harleyn3089]

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.

[@perrymcclusky4695]

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!

[@chrissoskavounis4307]

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!!!

[@williamsillustrate]

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

[@loudtrexx]

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!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks. :)

[@59withqsb12]

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.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks. :)

[@slofkosky7641]

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

[@anthonymccarthy4164]

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.

[@nathannation]

Congratulations on 1M. Big accomplishment!

[@d.barnette2687]

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. 😀

[@ExplainingComputers]

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.

[@edwardharding5677]

Congrats on the 1,000,000 subs!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks. :)

[@Matelight_IT]

Congratulations on reaching 1 million subscribers!!

[@SecretWolfie]

Please ignore the above message, It is not from Christopher, rather it's a scammer.

[@ericlawrence366]

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!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support. Most appreciated. :)

[@TheTubejunky]

Awesomeness for including Kali linux as it's a goto for many coders!

[@ultrium2000]

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

[@charlesjmouse]

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!)

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this. Unfortunately, RISC OS is not yet available for the Pi 5. DietPi has just entered Pi 5 testing.

[@SecretWolfie]

1 Million Subscribers! Well done Christopher!! :D

[@Haltroy]

--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]

Chris is a windows user and known he's not keen using linux as a computer science teacher. He's agnostic which I appreciate.

[@harleyn3089]

@@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 KZbinr. Your information was accurate a few years ago.

[@alanthornton3530]

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 & KZbin 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 :) 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings Alan, thanks for your support. And I love the ducks! :)

[@alanthornton3530]

@@ExplainingComputers You can never have too many ducks!!

[@Ricks_Tech_Talk]

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

[@BestSpatula]

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.

[@dmckrk]

They just dropped support for most old sbcs.

[@TamiroRabbit]

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 KZbinr now

[@paulw314]

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!

[@MoultrieGeek]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks! Less than 1800 subs to go the million now! :)

[@SecretWolfie]

So close to 1 million, keep it up Chris!

[@TamiroRabbit]

Christopher, cogratulations on reaching 1M subscribers!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 You need to celebrate

[@max10eb]

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

[@Indrajit_Saren]

Your channel is heaven for Bcs students !!!!! Thank you for your knowledgeable content !!!!!

[@gloiloidn5752]

Learned a lot about new Operating Systems. Great video!

[@Markonetwos]

1million!!! Good job on achieving that!

[@RococoAlmanegra]

Congratulations on your 1M subscribers!!!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks! :)

[@legojenn]

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.

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

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.

[@lshep9728]

Thank you so much for explaining the different OS’s available for the Pi. Very informative, very helpful.

[@mikefinn2101]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks 👍

[@TroySkirchak]

Almost a million! Go CHRIS !!

[@desertshadow72]

Excellent rundown.

[@giannistsolebas6962]

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.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

The whole point of having a mind is that one can change it.

[@tylerdean980]

Once you're far enough down the Linux rabbit hole it's time to try the BSD rabbit hole

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@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.

[@tylerdean980]

@@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

[@RecalboxOfficial]

Thanks for the shoutout !!

[@okesie-h6m]

1 MILLION!! 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATS !!

[@eldjmasterfreddy4366]

Great video and explanation like always

[@GoldenTrumpet24]

Good timing, I was actually googling this last night.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

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.

[@Setteegang]

1M time! Well done sir :)

[@paulmiller591]

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

[@ahmad-murery]

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!

[@Stevethesearcher]

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.

[@sugargliderdude]

well done on one million subscribers Chris

[@jonathanleach3914]

Excellent film, as always. Thanks.

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

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. :)

[@Praxibetel-Ix]

@@ExplainingComputers You are certainly welcome! I am absolutely proud of you and of being a part of this community. Congratulations!!!

[@k9slover]

Very helpful video. Well explained and clear.

[@artistlovepeace]

@explainingcomputers, great content!

[@lesliedeana5142]

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!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings Leslie.

[@Colin_Ames]

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.

[@warrengibson7898]

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

[@RobertBoerner]

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.

[@glockenwise]

congrats on a mil subs

[@freesaxon6835]

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

[@MichelMorinMontreal]

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.

[@DimebagDan81]

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!

[@robertusmar5107]

Thanks for the video sir 😊

[@rickster2317]

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 KZbin-streaming Nerd's Test. Thanks for that. And as always, thanks for all your hard work and informative videos Chris. Take Good Care.

[@Uniblab8]

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.

[@therealdatenshi]

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

[@davidfairchild1640]

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

[@ronaldmarshall5845]

Great Job Chris!

[@techtechnicalgaming]

Finally the video I was waiting for ❤

[@techtechnicalgaming]

Fake Chris replied to my comment 😠 i reported him

[@boink800]

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

[@Sidewinder1009oli]

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

[@mrfiresnake]

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

[@martinsmith5028]

Thanks Chris, very informative

[@srvuk]

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.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Now this is a great video idea. Noted! :)

[@RainbowSkyDancer]

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

[@josephfraser2190]

I bust out laughing when you made that joke 107 percent for the solitaire card game is included 😂.

[@baumgrt]

4:05 you’ll get a less distracting task switcher if you switch back from Wayland to X11. I did this because some apps wouldn’t work with Wayland and as a side effect, I have a more responsive UI and a task switcher that doesn’t drive me insane

[@ExplainingComputers]

An excellent tip -- thanks for sharing here.

[@Printman3332]

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

[@andymouse]

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.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings!

[@youfoundisaac]

Looking forward to learning more about ChromiumOS (esp how it differs from android) also pre-congrats on 1,000,000 well earned subscribers

[@davesradiorepairs6344]

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

[@AMDRADEONRUBY]

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

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

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

[@ExplainingComputers]

Welcome aboard!

[@send2gl]

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.

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

Cool setup!

[@durockps]

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

[@PR-cj8pd]

Did you set it up yourself or does it come as a download iso?

[@durockps]

@@PR-cj8pd myself...

[@awksedgreep]

Nerves supports Pi 5 as well if anyone is interested in playing with an embedded OS

[@awksedgreep]

Just updated to the latest nerves with Livebook on the Pi 5. Arm64 is working great and jit is enabled.

[@LiamGunes]

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

[@FreedomToRoam86]

Pac Man forever! And I liked the video to hear about other OS's, as a RPi noob myself.

[@ablearcher2753]

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.

[@guyfoundry4228]

Very close to 1 million subs!