This gave me a chuckle. Really though, why is it Google and Microsoft lack basic polish even during the setup procedure where as Apple always seems to get this part right. I doubt Apple devs are any more talented than those at Google or Microsoft, or that they’re financially better off (all three have unlimited cash for such things) so what gives? Does Apple just bake things in the oven for longer, have a procedure for triple micro checking all the details, or what? This has consistently been the case for 25+ years in my experience.
Permission to brag. I enjoyed the fact that Chromium showed up in the wild on November 19, 2009. I finished my last day of work on Friday November 20, 2009 after 33 years of working in the Plain Old Telephone Service, AKA . . . "POTS." I bought a Dell tower a couple of months later that had 2 gig of ram and an 80 GB HDD loaded with Windows 7 and thought that I had the best computer in the neighborhood. Thanks for the memories. : )
@14:25 "Microsoft Windows wants to update itself. We have to be running a real version of Windows if it wants to update itself." Hahaha Sly dry wit alright.
I so enjoy these demonstrations. I've always wanted to try out these operating systems and fiddle around with the raspberry hardware in my spare time. which I do from time to time but I find I need to focus on other things. that's why I appreciate these videos so much it's the adventure without all the trials and tribulations. thank you for your work!
Wow, that was impressive. That's the very first time I see ChromiumOS/ChromeOS running and I have to say it was not bad at all. The system is responsive and smooth, performance is great and visual appearance is not bad unlike in the most of Linux distributions. And another greatest thing: no messing with console at all.
@@BilisNegra no one actually cares about windows 11's requirements. literally only loonux nerds are frothing at the mouth about windows 11's requirements for TPM and newer CPU because they think this time, for real, 100%, that it'll finally be the year of the linux desktop, you know, the same tune they chant every time a new version of windows comes out and yet, guess what, no average computer user switches to loonux because it's garbage and doesn't have the programs people actually want to use (no, no one wants to use GIMP or LibreOffice, stop pretending those embarassingly bad programs are good). the average computer user is just going to ignore windows 11 and keep using windows 10 until 2025 when its support ends, or maybe even beyond, just like all the people out there that are still using even windows 7 to this day.
It seems pretty responsive and I’m always amazed at any type of Windows running on a Pi. This is another OS I am interested in trying on my Raspberries. Looking forward to your next video!
@@ExplainingComputers I find it difficult making 4-6 TH-cam videos a year. Your making a quality video a week has my admiration and respect! If I were limited to following only one channel, it would be yours! Keep up the good work!!! 👍
I'll confess that when you clicked on the Pi then cut to black screen, the electrical guru in me thought you blew a breaker... Neat port! Might have to try it on my Pi once I get one.
The 'boss' doesn't need a full-fledged PC for online shopping, browsing and mail so I got her an Asus Chromebook Flip CM5. It's basically all she needs. There are plenty of PWA's (Progressive Web Apps) you can install, which you didn't have time to mention. :-) I also own a Lenovo Chromebook Duet, which is miles better than any Android tablet, which I throw in my backpack when I go out. I'm more and more tempted to but a Raspberry Pi now!
Not something that would be much use to me, but my dad and several other people I know would certainly find this very useful. Much cheaper than a new PC, so I think when the time comes my old dad needs a new computer, I may make this the recommendation as it will do everything he needs in a way that would be familiar to him and save him in excess of £100. Excellent stuff.
Very nice OS....!! And very well presented....!! I've seen that "test clip" so many times now, seems to me that it's the first time that it's so efficient with the "stats for nerds".......!!!
Very informative Chris. Thank you for the putting together this demo. The small form factor Raspberry Pi with Chromium OS for my low budget web app use just may be what I need.
Great idea and video! I just switched over and it seems to run better than Raspberry OS and my best video is at 720p. I've always intended to use the Pi 4 as a simple browsing and email computer. Now this fits my needs. Thanks again.
Linus Torvalds would be quite happy today seeing Mr. Christopher installing and using chromium OS on a Pi. 👍 BTW, small fonts society quip was a nice addition. ;) PS : My phone died yesterday afternoon, hence I was unable to join our favorite channel.
My entire high school education (Swedish version of high school) was done on an Acer Chromebook R11. So I’m quite familiar with the OS. Though the battery wore out quite quickly. Always a fuss in classes with people forgetting their chargers.
Having ChromeOS (well, ChromiumOS) available for Pis is fantastic - a lot of people who can't afford a new computer could now very much do so with a Pi and a pre-setup ChromiumOS card without having to learn Linux!
Another great video, I'll have to try it on my Raspad with the 8 gigabyte 4 model inside,. A proud member of the big font society....😆 Have a great week.
Chris tnx for the video. Please notice that for a possible FydeOS video: the system gained a lot of attention after ETA prime video running android games with great performance (even GTA San Andreas mobile). I'm not sure if it runs linux apps as well, but anyway. The privacy of chromiumOS is interesting as its open source as you mentioned, FydeOS being closed source is suspicious being chinese or not (or "sus" as the 'among us' game popularized the term). Since chrome OS is a little based on gentoo, there is also value looking the unmaintained sasaki image of gentoo for the Rpi4. Hugs from brazil !!
I spent almost a while week or two testing different number of FydeOS versions for the Pi. NONE of them ran Linux apps after installing from the terminal. The GUI simply refuses to start
i very much wish google would adopt the pi hardware for official chromeOS images. it would be a huge boon to the raspberry pi foundation as it would enable them to offer a much better desktop experience with full hardware acceleration, android app and linux app support. fyde is a great proof of concept, but it comes with all the limitations of a third party solution.
I beg to differ. Google's privacy behaviour means that if they released a distro for RPI or any other flavour of SBC .. the last line of defence has been crossed in terms of getting their fingers into the data of makers, tinkerers, kids building their first RPI based computer etc.etc.etc..
@@paulluce2557 …are you aware that, with the full blessings of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Microsoft PPA sources have been inserted into the Official Raspberry Pi OS??? Yes, Windows 10/11 software apps, with all of its “MS Phone Home” capability…. I lost ALL respect for the RPi Foundation…. Sad..
Hey, we DO technically have Windows on Raspberry, free for everyone and supposedly actually runs ok! REALLY weird, complicated setup process (I don't get it yet) but that was their "catch": you build the OS yourself. If we can get Windows to start caving, Google can't be far behind. After those 2, I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't somehow wanna jump into the SBC market.
Very impressive, I wish I had a Pi too, I would be playing with it all day haha. I think I would install an obscure os like NetBSD or something weird. Cool vid as always :3
I sometimes check are there any updates for the same version of chromium os, but unfortunately the latest update is from december 2020, so the project doesn't look alive. They probably have some hardware/driver issues with pi, and that's bad, because it could be a fantastic OS.
The Agency of Silly Things is a joint venture of the Ministry of Silly Walks working with the non-profit Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
Great video. Not for me, but I can see how perhaps seniors can enjoy the use of a low power but high performance computer connected to a big screen and wireless controls.
Explaining Computers on a Sunday perfect, another interesting & entertaining video. If you logged on as a guest would it be secure enough to use for internet banking & other financial transactions? 'Oh' and there's nothing wrong with being a penguin :)
G'day Chris, love your videos, mate. I haven't watched all your videos but wondering if you have any about projects using old laptops? If not, it would be good if you could.
I've a retro video on an old laptop coming up fairly soon. Earlier this year I did a video on using Linux to bring new life to an old laptop: th-cam.com/video/aJcWcQ8ew6Q/w-d-xo.html And I've done various videos in the past upgrading laptops with an SSD and more RAM.
Once you've got Linux installed following Chris' other video, how about installing DOSbox and playing some classic DOS games? Explaining Computers has you covered once again: th-cam.com/video/uMe4O5WhtJQ/w-d-xo.html
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks Chris. Installing Linux on an old laptop is as far as I've gotten so far. Speaking of which, I tried installing Mint on another laptop but can't seem to get WiFi(or ethernet)working now. Any ideas?
@@craigf9031 I have been lucky, every laptop bar one that I've installed Linux (particularly Linux Mint) on, wifi has 'just worked', and ethernet has never failed. You may be able to install a wifi driver using the install USB flash drive, so first try going into the Driver Manager in the Control Centre. An alternative would be to buy a cheap USB wifi dongle compatible with Linux.
@@craigf9031 My experience is that Mint (typically I use its XFCE version) usually works on old laptops but not always on the newest integrated netbook chipsets. As I also like MX linux, my first resort would be to try MX if Mint did not work. For really old laptops, antiX and Puppy are also linux versions that I would try. All of these can be tried from a bootable USB stick or DVD ROM and then installed permanently once I find one that works the wifi (etc.) nicely. For a while my cheap and nasty Geobook would not run linux at all, but I was recently able to install the latest version of Mint on it.
Not a fan of Chromium OS, but I'm a fan of you and your channel, so here I am, watching the whole video and leaving a comment for the Al Gore's Rhythm.
Well, this is great timing for me Chris, I just got a Pi400 last week, and was wondering what other things I could do with it. I’m off to join the very small font society. 😃
That was exactly the thing that I noticed most in this video! I'm tempted to set up a Pi 4 or 400 for my kids to use as a light desktop PC, but because of the Pi's awful performance in the playing-streaming-video department I'm leaning towards a second hand laptop running Zorin OS or something. However, I'm going to test Chromium OS on my Pi 4 4Gb and see if YT/Netflix is actually usable, and if the other things my kids need can be done under Chromium OS, I may just switch my plans back to a Pi. Thanks for this tip! Having said all that, is it known why streaming video in a browser is such a problem in nearly all (or all?) "normal" Pi OS's? Is it a driver problem, a browser problem, underlying OS simply too heavy, something else? Clearly the problem can't be hardware, as Chromium OS does well, and also playing an HD stream in VLC player in Raspberry Pi OS generally works well.
I believe it's all about the availability of support for the GPU that's included in the Broadcom SoC used in the Pi. For some reason Broadcom keeps much of it a secret, which seems to be a foolish strategy if they really want people to buy their chips. 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS accesses the GPU via a closed source "binary blob" of code supplied by Broadcom. The lack of a similar 64-bit driver is what's holding back 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS.
@@johnm2012 If that's the case, then how could FydeOS implement the playback in such smooth way? They must have access to something Raspberry Pi OSes don't
It’s genuinely impressive how well this performs. Even raspberrypi OS doesn’t play TH-cam videos this well most of the time. We might be one pi generation away from having it be viable desktop replacement for day to day use. I’m guessing it’s not possible to overclock the pi 4 while using chromiumOS?
I remember proto-typing (what are now called) desktop widgets & SaS apps when Microsoft introduced Active Desktop (with the introduction of IE4), when I realised that both the Scripting Host (Engine) & VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) were running the same core interpreter. The only problem I had at that time was when showing/demoing to other people, the first thing they would try to do was drag the icons in and out of the browser windows (which wasn't supported until Macromedia defined DHTML about a year later) - nowadays everything is web centric, even when not web rendered - shame that RPiOS never learned the PipaOS 3 second boot technique (although they got it down to 5 seconds, that hasn't been the case for a couple of years now, again ..) ho hum
As always a brilliant video. I think I'll invest in a second Pi, then I can try different systems without affecting my very stable RaspberryOS which I actually like.
The general performance seemed to be very smooth. Chris, in general web browsing on busier websites, do you think it was better/worse/similar than most Linux based OSs?
I have 2 ChromeBook since severals years. One for me and one for my wife. And specifikly for the second, the usage is incredibly easy. The updates are automatic (is it the same on Chromiom OS for PI ?) , the usage very simple, you can record multi accounts for login and, as you notice, a guest account is very safety. And specific tools (VPN for exemple) are avalaible. Chromium on PI could be use on TV and, for example, with a bluetooh keybord and HDMI cable, you can use it on the television at your vacation spot. Thanks for this moment and I notice (6'16) that you have the same favorite website than me !! Good choice !!! Best regards
At 3:32 you turn on the power and it gets dark. Seems a fuse in the house has blown. I got a really suspicious look. :-) Anyway, it's a really informative video as always.
Hey I just saw your other channel named explaining the future and I was mind blown . You really predicted the future . Can you make more videos on that too ? Please ?
It is still working fine, no issues. In fact I updated the version of Linux Mint on it only last week for the video posting next Sunday, which is called "Linux Survival Guide #1". So next week's video comes, at least in part, off the QVO! :)
Does the RAM of my PI model matter? I mean, it matters for performance, but how much is the bare minimum for it to run at all? I plan on buying PI to showcase stuff for cloud operating systems projects on it, lol. I can't decide which model to buy. Will 4 GB be enough? By the way, great video!
ANOTHER OS REVIEW FOR THE PI???!?!??? PLEASE! Still trying to work out Twister, so much fun to be had. Also trying to figure out that complicated Windows on Raspberry sequence of building the OS.
@@ExplainingComputers just checked, yep, my bad. I didn't try fyde yet but can vouch for the work over at brunch, got my thinkpad's secondary drive (16gb m.2 SSD) running the latest chromeOS including some basic android support. it runs really well
"We can set the font so it can be seen by an average human being."
Amen, brother!
I wear two pairs of "readers" at the same time when playing with an iOS device.
You got me with "Members of the Very Small Font Society"! Great video as always, Chris.
That the people in the animation had very small heads just added to it, too.
Agent Stan, Bureau of Small Fonts.. (flashes tiny ID badge)..
I seriously LOVE Chris’ attention to detail :) He’s also so damn funny about it! Lol I was laughing so hard when he said this too! 😝
This gave me a chuckle. Really though, why is it Google and Microsoft lack basic polish even during the setup procedure where as Apple always seems to get this part right. I doubt Apple devs are any more talented than those at Google or Microsoft, or that they’re financially better off (all three have unlimited cash for such things) so what gives? Does Apple just bake things in the oven for longer, have a procedure for triple micro checking all the details, or what? This has consistently been the case for 25+ years in my experience.
Also members of the Very Ugly Art Society.
The best thing about Sundays is Explaining Computers :-)
:)
If you only just found Explaining Computers, every day can be Sunday for at least a couple of months :)
I did not even know that this port existed. It's nice to see more options being made available for these little computers.
Love the openness of letting us see the typos on the script. Tell-tale sign of a doer, not a "managher".
Permission to brag. I enjoyed the fact that Chromium showed up in the wild on November 19, 2009.
I finished my last day of work on Friday November 20, 2009 after 33 years of working in the Plain Old Telephone Service,
AKA . . . "POTS." I bought a Dell tower a couple of months later that had 2 gig of ram and an 80 GB HDD loaded with
Windows 7 and thought that I had the best computer in the neighborhood. Thanks for the memories.
: )
Another great episode. Your dry wit cracks me up every time.
Thanks 👍
@14:25 "Microsoft Windows wants to update itself. We have to be running a real version of Windows if it wants to update itself." Hahaha Sly dry wit alright.
I so enjoy these demonstrations. I've always wanted to try out these operating systems and fiddle around with the raspberry hardware in my spare time. which I do from time to time but I find I need to focus on other things. that's why I appreciate these videos so much it's the adventure without all the trials and tribulations. thank you for your work!
same here. i want to live in the world where linux android and windows finds peace.
Wow, that was impressive. That's the very first time I see ChromiumOS/ChromeOS running and I have to say it was not bad at all. The system is responsive and smooth, performance is great and visual appearance is not bad unlike in the most of Linux distributions. And another greatest thing: no messing with console at all.
Thanks for keeping us up to date on this Chris. Love the show and your humour. 😉
Come on Stanley! Don't let Mr. Scissors win the most important _Series1_ race! - 9:53
7:30 "I seem to have become a penguin"
Haha, that made me spit my brew out.
Linux reference? They know whats up.
@@3dlabs99 What's up with Microsoft, mainly their upsetting users with Windows 11 hardware requirements? Maybe, makes sense.
@@BilisNegra no one actually cares about windows 11's requirements. literally only loonux nerds are frothing at the mouth about windows 11's requirements for TPM and newer CPU because they think this time, for real, 100%, that it'll finally be the year of the linux desktop, you know, the same tune they chant every time a new version of windows comes out and yet, guess what, no average computer user switches to loonux because it's garbage and doesn't have the programs people actually want to use (no, no one wants to use GIMP or LibreOffice, stop pretending those embarassingly bad programs are good). the average computer user is just going to ignore windows 11 and keep using windows 10 until 2025 when its support ends, or maybe even beyond, just like all the people out there that are still using even windows 7 to this day.
@@ps5hasnogames55 i think i am going to switch to gnu+linux
@@BilisNegra It looks like Microsoft has got the idea of centered taskbar icons in Windows 11 from Chrome OS/Chromium OS!
It seems pretty responsive and I’m always amazed at any type of Windows running on a Pi. This is another OS I am interested in trying on my Raspberries. Looking forward to your next video!
Greetings Perry -- how the Sundays come around! :)
@@ExplainingComputers I find it difficult making 4-6 TH-cam videos a year. Your making a quality video a week has my admiration and respect! If I were limited to following only one channel, it would be yours! Keep up the good work!!! 👍
3:36 thats a special sense of humour right there and I for one like it very much 🤣🤣
Definitely looks interesting, might be something I install on my Pi 3 B+ to give it more use. Nice vid as always Chris!
Thanks!
Thank you for another great video Christopher. It looks like chromium os runs fairly smoothly on the pi. That's really cool.
Thanks for your support Joel, most appreciated. :) Chromium OS does indeed run pretty well on a Pi 4.
8:12 "What a strange mood I´m in today!" 😄 Excellent as always, Chris! This might be the most underrated tech-channel on TH-cam.
I'll confess that when you clicked on the Pi then cut to black screen, the electrical guru in me thought you blew a breaker...
Neat port! Might have to try it on my Pi once I get one.
The 'boss' doesn't need a full-fledged PC for online shopping, browsing and mail so I got her an Asus Chromebook Flip CM5. It's basically all she needs. There are plenty of PWA's (Progressive Web Apps) you can install, which you didn't have time to mention. :-) I also own a Lenovo Chromebook Duet, which is miles better than any Android tablet, which I throw in my backpack when I go out. I'm more and more tempted to but a Raspberry Pi now!
It is interesting to see PI do more OS. TH-cam looks great on it. Great show.
Not something that would be much use to me, but my dad and several other people I know would certainly find this very useful. Much cheaper than a new PC, so I think when the time comes my old dad needs a new computer, I may make this the recommendation as it will do everything he needs in a way that would be familiar to him and save him in excess of £100. Excellent stuff.
nothing but respect for this man
Very nice OS....!! And very well presented....!! I've seen that "test clip" so many times now, seems to me that it's the first time that it's so efficient with the "stats for nerds".......!!!
Great channel Chris. Very informative and all the videos are well done.
Finally managed to install Linux Mint to my 2nd SSD. Today i am testing it for the first time ever and i am very happy with the outcome. Excellent
Great to hear!
My issues (didn't work on RPI 3B+) are solved using the new dedicated release for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and Model B+.
Thx to the team !!!!!
Great to hear! :)
Very informative Chris. Thank you for the putting together this demo. The small form factor Raspberry Pi with Chromium OS for my low budget web app use just may be what I need.
I just love the way Britons talk.
Thanks Chris, great review and humour too.
Congrats on the 800k subs :)
Thanks Marci. :)
Another great video! Thanks Chris!
Great idea and video! I just switched over and it seems to run better than Raspberry OS and my best video is at 720p. I've always intended to use the Pi 4 as a simple browsing and email computer. Now this fits my needs. Thanks again.
Great to hear! :)
Getting both Chromium and Fyde OS's now! 😉 Thanks for letting me know!
Linus Torvalds would be quite happy today seeing Mr. Christopher installing and using chromium OS on a Pi. 👍
BTW, small fonts society quip was a nice addition. ;)
PS : My phone died yesterday afternoon, hence I was unable to join our favorite channel.
My entire high school education (Swedish version of high school) was done on an Acer Chromebook R11. So I’m quite familiar with the OS. Though the battery wore out quite quickly. Always a fuss in classes with people forgetting their chargers.
Whoa! I learned something NEW from you =) . I had ZERO clue about the Stats for Nerds feature of YT! Thanks!
Hello! Great job with the video. I have followed the instructions and am currently typing this comment on Chromium OS on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Great to hear! :)
Having ChromeOS (well, ChromiumOS) available for Pis is fantastic - a lot of people who can't afford a new computer could now very much do so with a Pi and a pre-setup ChromiumOS card without having to learn Linux!
No one can explain computers like you 😄
Another great video, I'll have to try it on my Raspad with the 8 gigabyte 4 model inside,. A proud member of the big font society....😆
Have a great week.
Chris tnx for the video. Please notice that for a possible FydeOS video: the system gained a lot of attention after ETA prime video running android games with great performance (even GTA San Andreas mobile). I'm not sure if it runs linux apps as well, but anyway. The privacy of chromiumOS is interesting as its open source as you mentioned, FydeOS being closed source is suspicious being chinese or not (or "sus" as the 'among us' game popularized the term). Since chrome OS is a little based on gentoo, there is also value looking the unmaintained sasaki image of gentoo for the Rpi4. Hugs from brazil !!
I spent almost a while week or two testing different number of FydeOS versions for the Pi. NONE of them ran Linux apps after installing from the terminal. The GUI simply refuses to start
many thanks, this os is fantastic. at last 64 bit on my pi 4. but, even better 1080p playback. its amazing. thank you
I'm a member of the very small font society, but I still love your videos.
:)
i very much wish google would adopt the pi hardware for official chromeOS images. it would be a huge boon to the raspberry pi foundation as it would enable them to offer a much better desktop experience with full hardware acceleration, android app and linux app support. fyde is a great proof of concept, but it comes with all the limitations of a third party solution.
I beg to differ. Google's privacy behaviour means that if they released a distro for RPI or any other flavour of SBC .. the last line of defence has been crossed in terms of getting their fingers into the data of makers, tinkerers, kids building their first RPI based computer etc.etc.etc..
@@paulluce2557 …are you aware that, with the full blessings of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Microsoft PPA sources have been inserted into the Official Raspberry Pi OS???
Yes, Windows 10/11 software apps, with all of its “MS Phone Home” capability….
I lost ALL respect for the RPi Foundation…. Sad..
@@ernestgalvan9037 That’s been removed, you’re complaining about nothing.
Hey, we DO technically have Windows on Raspberry, free for everyone and supposedly actually runs ok! REALLY weird, complicated setup process (I don't get it yet) but that was their "catch": you build the OS yourself.
If we can get Windows to start caving, Google can't be far behind. After those 2, I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't somehow wanna jump into the SBC market.
@@ernestgalvan9037 huh then just don't install said apps and use alternatives
Nice! Also, Cloudready is pretty nice for x86 machines.
Very impressive, I wish I had a Pi too, I would be playing with it all day haha. I think I would install an obscure os like NetBSD or something weird. Cool vid as always :3
I’m still shook with how fast you typed our favourite website. 😮
i swear to god you have the best presenting style on youtube 😍
There's a version of chrome OS by itself for the raspberry pi (its got the same fyde os name) and runs android apps , maybe you should check it out :D
I sometimes check are there any updates for the same version of chromium os, but unfortunately the latest update is from december 2020, so the project doesn't look alive.
They probably have some hardware/driver issues with pi, and that's bad, because it could be a fantastic OS.
The Very Small Fonts Society: A Division of the Ministry of Silly Things.
Where is Monty Python when you need them? 😂
They compiled the python code for it !!!
The Agency of Silly Things is a joint venture of the Ministry of Silly Walks working with the non-profit Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
Chromium is like the perfect OS for most of my family.
its great for the kids, and (harware) used to affordable for most shcools (not so any more)
A nice intro to chromium os. Thank you.
Brilliant! I hope this is 64-bit and fills the void of the 8gb model of the RPi 4B...Nice work and Happy Sunday from South Texas USA 🇺🇸!
I asked a similar question about whether it's 32- or 64-bit, but the fact that the graphics work well suggests that it's 32-bit.
@@johnm2012 hmmm 🤔… I think I’ll just save it (the RPi4) for Kodi!
I feel like the Members of the Very Small Font Society deserve a Mounty Python sketch
They do. They most certainly do.
Great video. Not for me, but I can see how perhaps seniors can enjoy the use of a low power but high performance computer connected to a big screen and wireless controls.
"We can set the font so it can be seen by an average human being." 🤣🤣
Thanks for your awesome videos.
You're a legend Christopher continue
Explaining Computers on a Sunday perfect, another interesting & entertaining video. If you logged on as a guest would it be secure enough to use for internet banking & other financial transactions? 'Oh' and there's nothing wrong with being a penguin :)
Thank you for your excellently produced video on Chromium OS
Wow this takes the pi to another level. Nice video as always
I kind of want to know if Mr. Scissors and Stanly the Knife we’re the ones that wrote the story about the different types of fonts.. 😎
G'day Chris, love your videos, mate. I haven't watched all your videos but wondering if you have any about projects using old laptops? If not, it would be good if you could.
I've a retro video on an old laptop coming up fairly soon. Earlier this year I did a video on using Linux to bring new life to an old laptop: th-cam.com/video/aJcWcQ8ew6Q/w-d-xo.html And I've done various videos in the past upgrading laptops with an SSD and more RAM.
Once you've got Linux installed following Chris' other video, how about installing DOSbox and playing some classic DOS games? Explaining Computers has you covered once again: th-cam.com/video/uMe4O5WhtJQ/w-d-xo.html
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks Chris. Installing Linux on an old laptop is as far as I've gotten so far. Speaking of which, I tried installing Mint on another laptop but can't seem to get WiFi(or ethernet)working now. Any ideas?
@@craigf9031 I have been lucky, every laptop bar one that I've installed Linux (particularly Linux Mint) on, wifi has 'just worked', and ethernet has never failed. You may be able to install a wifi driver using the install USB flash drive, so first try going into the Driver Manager in the Control Centre. An alternative would be to buy a cheap USB wifi dongle compatible with Linux.
@@craigf9031 My experience is that Mint (typically I use its XFCE version) usually works on old laptops but not always on the newest integrated netbook chipsets.
As I also like MX linux, my first resort would be to try MX if Mint did not work.
For really old laptops, antiX and Puppy are also linux versions that I would try.
All of these can be tried from a bootable USB stick or DVD ROM and then installed permanently once I find one that works the wifi (etc.) nicely. For a while my cheap and nasty Geobook would not run linux at all, but I was recently able to install the latest version of Mint on it.
This is great Chris, however I really like the eco-system which has grown up around the Raspberry Pi. Fonts for normal people, damn right.
Not a fan of Chromium OS, but I'm a fan of you and your channel, so here I am, watching the whole video and leaving a comment for the Al Gore's Rhythm.
Thanks.
Nice as always a new video of my good friend Christopher
Well, this is great timing for me Chris, I just got a Pi400 last week, and was wondering what other things I could do with it.
I’m off to join the very small font society. 😃
Enjoy!
Hey Stuart,
I have just boght Pi400 and I need some user review. How happy are you with Pi400+Chromium OS?
Brilliant work as always chris!
Why can't other RPi OSes play TH-cam videos as good as that? That seemed pretty good.
Yes, TH-cam playback here is usable.
That was exactly the thing that I noticed most in this video! I'm tempted to set up a Pi 4 or 400 for my kids to use as a light desktop PC, but because of the Pi's awful performance in the playing-streaming-video department I'm leaning towards a second hand laptop running Zorin OS or something. However, I'm going to test Chromium OS on my Pi 4 4Gb and see if YT/Netflix is actually usable, and if the other things my kids need can be done under Chromium OS, I may just switch my plans back to a Pi. Thanks for this tip!
Having said all that, is it known why streaming video in a browser is such a problem in nearly all (or all?) "normal" Pi OS's? Is it a driver problem, a browser problem, underlying OS simply too heavy, something else? Clearly the problem can't be hardware, as Chromium OS does well, and also playing an HD stream in VLC player in Raspberry Pi OS generally works well.
I believe it's all about the availability of support for the GPU that's included in the Broadcom SoC used in the Pi. For some reason Broadcom keeps much of it a secret, which seems to be a foolish strategy if they really want people to buy their chips. 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS accesses the GPU via a closed source "binary blob" of code supplied by Broadcom. The lack of a similar 64-bit driver is what's holding back 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS.
@@johnm2012 Thank you. That sounds... silly. Maybe Raspberry should look for a different GPU manufacturer, but that's probably not trivial.
@@johnm2012 If that's the case, then how could FydeOS implement the playback in such smooth way? They must have access to something Raspberry Pi OSes don't
Yet another very useful video. Big thanks!
Very informative and well presented. Thanks from Orlando Florida.
Greetings Sir! :)
It’s genuinely impressive how well this performs. Even raspberrypi OS doesn’t play TH-cam videos this well most of the time. We might be one pi generation away from having it be viable desktop replacement for day to day use. I’m guessing it’s not possible to overclock the pi 4 while using chromiumOS?
Thank you for the educational video. You make me smarter. Best wishes.
I remember proto-typing (what are now called) desktop widgets & SaS apps when Microsoft introduced Active Desktop (with the introduction of IE4), when I realised that both the Scripting Host (Engine) & VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) were running the same core interpreter. The only problem I had at that time was when showing/demoing to other people, the first thing they would try to do was drag the icons in and out of the browser windows (which wasn't supported until Macromedia defined DHTML about a year later) - nowadays everything is web centric, even when not web rendered - shame that RPiOS never learned the PipaOS 3 second boot technique (although they got it down to 5 seconds, that hasn't been the case for a couple of years now, again ..) ho hum
Great tour as always :-)
Thanks for sharing :-)
That's pretty nice. Now I can try Chromdium OS without having to buy a ChromeBook or use my PC for it.
What a wonderful wallpaper chromium os has.... ;-)
As always a brilliant video. I think I'll invest in a second Pi, then I can try different systems without affecting my very stable RaspberryOS which I actually like.
Or switch SD cards, much cheaper solution.
@@ErilynOfAnachronos might be running some home assistance ... 24/7
@@ErilynOfAnachronos I have it set up in Argon One M.2, unscrewing 4 screws is pushing my practical abilities a bit too much.
The general performance seemed to be very smooth. Chris, in general web browsing on busier websites, do you think it was better/worse/similar than most Linux based OSs?
General web performance was probably a little better than most Pi OS.
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks, that's good to know. The TH-cam performance certainly seems better than what I get on Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu Mate.
YT playback on RPiOS has been broken since they introduced the NO-SWF patch 2-3 months ago (ie dropped Flash support)
I have 2 ChromeBook since severals years. One for me and one for my wife. And specifikly for the second, the usage is incredibly easy. The updates are automatic (is it the same on Chromiom OS for PI ?) , the usage very simple, you can record multi accounts for login and, as you notice, a guest account is very safety. And specific tools (VPN for exemple) are avalaible.
Chromium on PI could be use on TV and, for example, with a bluetooh keybord and HDMI cable, you can use it on the television at your vacation spot.
Thanks for this moment and I notice (6'16) that you have the same favorite website than me !! Good choice !!!
Best regards
At 3:32 you turn on the power and it gets dark. Seems a fuse in the house has blown. I got a really suspicious look. :-) Anyway, it's a really informative video as always.
Which monitor did you use? Great video again!
This guy is phenomenal
as always, great video, thank you for sharing!
Great topic, thank you!
How do you take an open source OS and turn it into not only a commercial OS but a commercial OS based on a subscription fee?
Happy *NOT* to be first!
Just happy to see another video by Chris! ;-)
Greetings! :)
Hey I just saw your other channel named explaining the future and I was mind blown . You really predicted the future . Can you make more videos on that too ? Please ?
We want a RPİ5 version of this video!
What happened to that QVO drive you put in your test rig in the TLC vs QLC video?
It is still working fine, no issues. In fact I updated the version of Linux Mint on it only last week for the video posting next Sunday, which is called "Linux Survival Guide #1". So next week's video comes, at least in part, off the QVO! :)
Key phrase, "very small fonts society." Heheh. Great video.
Another very enjoyable episode, full of useful information coupled with your excellent brand of humor.
Does the RAM of my PI model matter? I mean, it matters for performance, but how much is the bare minimum for it to run at all? I plan on buying PI to showcase stuff for cloud operating systems projects on it, lol. I can't decide which model to buy. Will 4 GB be enough?
By the way, great video!
ANOTHER OS REVIEW FOR THE PI???!?!??? PLEASE!
Still trying to work out Twister, so much fun to be had. Also trying to figure out that complicated Windows on Raspberry sequence of building the OS.
I can see this being useful for my kids. Their online homework is web based and they use Chrome OS at school. Thanks!
I will give it a shot on a Raspberry Pi 3B! This seems to run better than Chromium on Raspberry Pi OS.
"Brunch framework" is the key search term for those wanting the proper ChromeOS
I thought it was x86 only?
@@ExplainingComputers just checked, yep, my bad. I didn't try fyde yet but can vouch for the work over at brunch, got my thinkpad's secondary drive (16gb m.2 SSD) running the latest chromeOS including some basic android support. it runs really well
I watch you from Tunisia
Excellent! :)
@@ExplainingComputers OH and I am 14 years old and I love your content so much 😍
Just when I happily settled with Twister OS... Thanks Chris. Btw, do you know if one would be able to run any of the console emulators from it?
6.66Gb image size? Holy smoke! Not just number of beast but size of the beast too! Strewth!
Very interesting video....thanks, Chris!