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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

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

@JohnDunne001

4 ай бұрын

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

@Lampe2020

4 ай бұрын

@@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

4 ай бұрын

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

@Praxibetel-Ix

4 ай бұрын

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

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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

:)

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

4 ай бұрын

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

@AlwaysCensored-xp1be

4 ай бұрын

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

@floatingbonesjournal

4 ай бұрын

​@@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 favourite no-nonsense youtube channel :)

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

@johnroberts3824

4 ай бұрын

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

4 ай бұрын

Excellent! :)

@robinbrowne5419

4 ай бұрын

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 👍

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

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.🎉🎶

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

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

@BsktImp

4 ай бұрын

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

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

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.

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 KZreadr now

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

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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. :)

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

4 ай бұрын

Greetings Leslie.

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

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.

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!!!

Congratulations on 1M. Big accomplishment!

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.

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

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. :)

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

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.

--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

4 ай бұрын

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

4 ай бұрын

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

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!

Learned a lot about new Operating Systems. Great video!

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

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. :)

Good timing, I was actually googling this last night.

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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

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

1 Million Subscribers! Well done Christopher!! :D

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

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

So close to 1 million, keep it up Chris!

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

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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Almost a million! Go CHRIS !!

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

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.

Very helpful video. Well explained and clear.

1million!!! Good job on achieving that!

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!

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.

Congratulations on reaching 1 million subscribers!!

@SecretWolfie

4 ай бұрын

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

Excellent film, as always. Thanks.

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.

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

4 ай бұрын

They just dropped support for most old sbcs.

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!

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

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

Congrats on the 1,000,000 subs!

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. :)

1 MILLION!! 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 CONGRATS !!

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

4 ай бұрын

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

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

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.

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

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

@SecretWolfie

4 ай бұрын

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

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

Thanks Chris, very informative

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

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.

@explainingcomputers, great content!

well done on one million subscribers Chris

Congratulations on your 1M subscribers!!!

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! :)

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

Finally the video I was waiting for ❤

@techtechnicalgaming

4 ай бұрын

Fake Chris replied to my comment 😠 i reported him

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

4 ай бұрын

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

Thanks for the video sir 😊

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

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

Great Job Chris!

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

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.

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.

congrats on a mil subs

Very close to 1 million subs!

1M time! Well done sir :)

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

@PR-cj8pd

4 ай бұрын

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

@durockps

4 ай бұрын

@@PR-cj8pd myself...

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

Thanks for the shoutout !!

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

Sunday evening just got better!

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

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

4 ай бұрын

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

@tylerdean980

4 ай бұрын

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

@terrydaktyllus1320

4 ай бұрын

@@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

4 ай бұрын

@@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

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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

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

4 ай бұрын

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

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

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

Enjoy your new Pi. :)

Thaks excelent is the best class for sunday

Great work... Thank you.

Thanks Prof!

So close to 1 million subscribers now!

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 you.

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~

Awesome video

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. 😄

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

4 ай бұрын

Cool setup!

That app switching "carousel" reminded me of good old times, when Linux Mint shipped a KDE desktop version as well. That's where I first saw it, but I'm not gonna lie about missing it much 😊.

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.

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

4 ай бұрын

Greetings!

Another plus for Raspberry Pi OS is the ease with which it can be setup headless on WiFi without needing a keyboard, mouse, monitor or ethernet cable.

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

@awksedgreep

4 ай бұрын

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