2:20 The global menu thing is kinda hard to install easily, so congrats to the devs. Xfce 4.20 is promissing initial wayland support, since twister themes works without the OS, it might still be relevant
XFCE currently works extremely well on Xorg. Xorg currently works extremely well on SBCs if you learn to use a distro like Gentoo Linux. You can be getting on with your own testing and research now instead of "twiddling your thumbs" waiting for someone else to build you what you want.
yeah; i recently installed PINN on a PI4 and was surprised to see how many OS'es were listed vs what's available in PINN for the 5. But i suppose over time 5 will have more as it has more power
I suspect that this is a start point of where the Raspberry Pi struggles to remain relevant, this is why you are seeing fewer OSes on RPi 5 than on RPi 4. True Open Source and maker enthusiasts like myself embraced the Raspberry Pi up to the RPi 3 when it was a cheap $35 computer that you put Linux on and then either stuck one on your electronics workbench for maker projects or gave one to a kid so they could learn Scratch programming on it - in either case, if it broke, it wasn't a big deal getting another one. Since then you've had a plethora of cheaper micro-contoller boards being released in the Arduino, ESP32 and Pi Pico ranges which create very little reason now for maker projects to use the RPi. As for kids and programming, at that level anything you'd do on an RPi 5 can be done on an RPi 3, so there's no reason to go to the additional expense of RPi 5. As well as that, if you're a skilled Linux builder like I am with Gentoo Linux, then I could care less how many OSes are released for each platform because I just build my own anyway - and I can do it on just about any SBC platform such as the Orange Pi range, many of which are much better value than RPi - take the Orange Pi Zero 3, for example, which has better specs than the RPi Zero 2W and costs anything between £13 to £25, depending on whether you want 1GB or 4GB RAM, which beats 512MB RAM on the RPi Zero 2W. The main reason the RPi is so popular is because the support community and content creators like Lee here have helped to turn it into a near-consumer device that means anyone can find a step-by-step video on how to do anything with it. Unfortunately, Gen-X and younger generations have never been taught the patience to read manuals or do their own research and testing to the point where if I gave then an Orange Pi, or a used PC, and said to them "Put Linux on it" they wouldn't know where to even start - most of them can't even be bothered to search other YT channels to find videos that might help them, otherwise you wouldn't see requests for Lee here to make videos on specific topics when I know videos on those topics exist elsewhere on YT. (I doubt very few of them can even be bothered to read my comment here, but that's their loss and their right to remain uninformed.) As far as I am concerned, the Pi Foundation has pandered far too much to the demands of gamers who just have wanted more and more power for emulation (and even crowbarring Windows and Steam onto the RPi) and they've completely lost their original direction. That's why they've recently launched the 1GB RPi 5 at $50 to try and capture back that original user base of makers and kid programmers by getting as close as they can to the original $35 price point. Now, all of a sudden, we have lots of mini PCs appearing, and lots of used and good PC hardware appearing online, all of which has a better supported Intel platform (even though ARM support under Linux is very good, I could care less about bloated and privacy-hating Windows) and is as cheap as (or cheaper than) the RPi 5, once you factor in the additional costs of a case, cooling and a CPU. A 4GB RPi 5 is going to cost you around $100 when you've factored in case, cooling and PSU and that puts it in the same price range as many mini PCs now. Plus the Pi Foundation appear to have completely abandoned the RPi Zero platform because it's completely "hemmed in" by micro-controllers on one side and bigger SBCs on the other - they made a mistake releasing the Zero 2 version without also at least doubling the RAM to 1GB which they could have kept at $35 with the smaller form factor and sacrificing the Ethernet port and a few USB ports. I guess we'll see what happens going forward...
@@willfettu2747 Am waiting for that as well. For Rpi4, in most cases I never have to tweak the config file much, but for Rpi5, that's a minimum for any OS except a few. For Rpi4, in most cases any OS be it konstakang worked right out of the box.
I tried twister yesterday on my pi 4. Lots of things are not working and even turned off. Box86 is not working and cant be updated. I am new to linux so that is a cul de sac for me. I wanted to turn my pi into a Pi OS unit when not switched into the retro pi like i had a few eyars ago. The Pi OS build used in the retropi stand alone does not work anymore and hags on install. This is the old one retropi says to get when you want to add retro onto an existing pi os build. Ive tried a few gaming based linux builds these last few days and none seem to do it or are not even worked on anymore. Like that monkejaro. That is 4 years old now and also does not work out of the box anymore. I managed to get recllbox workign today but i dotn see the PSX unit so that makes that install pointless as well.
Thanks Lee I use Twister OS on my Pinebook Pro laptop with the RK3999 chip, although the last updates the screen now shows Armbian OS. I wonder if I can use Twister on my recently ordered FydeTab Duo? I might try it on my recently received ClockworkPi Uconsole with the CM4 raspberry Pi module but not sure if it will work with the peripherals such as the keyboard and screen. Have a great day!
I've never run Twister OS but having gone through its specification and contents, there is nothing contained within it that I can see that you couldn't build onto another base distro if you put in time and effort yourself to learn how to do it. This is a constantly recurring theme amongst a huge percentage of the Raspberry Pi user base - they have in there possession a cheap computer platform that allows them to put any kind of Linux they want to on it, if they put in time and effort to learn how to do it. But they think it's a consumer-level device where they expect everyone else to put in all of the hard work to give them what they want. Nobody reads manuals or FAQs / Wikis any more, very few people sit at a desk or workbench and just experiment. If it's not in a "step-by-step video" on here, they're not interested in trying stuff out for themselves and learning something new in the process.
Twister was an excellent project. Good for those, who wanted to test GNU/Linux with menus and colors they were accustomed to in other OSes. But alas...
I was impressed with it today but not much works anymore and it wont run the games i need it to. New to linix so cant figure it out. I am a windows person.
@@sahamal_savu before Twister we had Raspbian 95 Raspberry Pi 4. Raspbian 95 Retro Windows look with emulators including DOSBOX th-cam.com/video/r1nuRWDp5tA/w-d-xo.html Raspberry Pi 4. Raspbian 95 Games test. DOSBOX, PPSSPP and Redream th-cam.com/video/h8XiKC8zgUI/w-d-xo.html
Friend, I have a specific device with an A311D2 SoC. I know there are several ARM-supported distros for it, but none for my specific device. If I use the procedure shown in the video, would it work with it?
You need to do some of your own reseach here - I very quickly found some answers just by searching for "A311D2 Linux" which tells me you might have a Beelink or Khadas Vim board, for example. You're probably not going to find a step-by-step video on how to do what you want with lesser-known boards like this and you probably need to go read a few web pages to get some idea of what to do with it. I suggest that anyone with this type of non-mainstream board goes to the Armbian site first and see what they have there, there may be a version of that that you can install and boot from.
@@amitheahole. unfortunately they only support X86 not Arm devices Some Arm images can be compatible with Orange Pi Reborn OS Rock 5b RK3588 image working on Orange Pi 5. th-cam.com/video/Qo4YTIwIZMY/w-d-xo.html
@leepspvideo sometimes I try to install arm compatible os with the right distro ofc and everything but it just doesn't work, I try with both SD card and the devtool and none work with some os's
@@x-techpro Yes, why the question? Intel and AMD CPUs are all "amd64" from a Linux core architecture perspective but there are sub-architectures like "Ryzen", "Westlake" or "Ivybridge" that can have slightly different features in terms of compiler flags. How the code is compiled depends on whether or not the code can run on all architectures. The RPi 3 was ARM Cortex A53 based, the RPi 4 was ARM Cortex A72 based, I can't remember what the RPi 5 is. Orange Pi's were ARM Cortex A7 originally then A53 around the Orange Pi 3 days. Again, these are all sub-architectures of "arm64" and it depends, again, on how the code is compiled as to whether it runs on all of them or not. The other thing to bear in mind is the bootloaders are different - non-Raspberry Pi SBCs tend to use the "u-boot" bootloader, the RPi uses their own boot methodology - so a RPi distro image probably won't boot on an Orange Pi without a u-boot bootloader being installed.
@@amitheahole. See my reply to x-techpro below. It depends both on how the code is compiled (generic arm64 or more CPU specific) and what bootloaders are supported. Most non-RPi SBCs use the "u-boot" bootloader, RPi has their own boot mechanism.
Bro can you make a video about Mac OS big sur made by luke which is only compartable with raspberry pi 4 but . I have Raspberry pi 5 how can I run the os on pi 5
2:20 The global menu thing is kinda hard to install easily, so congrats to the devs. Xfce 4.20 is promissing initial wayland support, since twister themes works without the OS, it might still be relevant
XFCE currently works extremely well on Xorg. Xorg currently works extremely well on SBCs if you learn to use a distro like Gentoo Linux. You can be getting on with your own testing and research now instead of "twiddling your thumbs" waiting for someone else to build you what you want.
Finally the video I always wanted
This was the best os ever on a raspberry pi
I loved how Pi4 had so many OS working. My pi5 barely runs any OS , recently tried TwisterOS and it didnt work. I'll try the method mentioned, lets c.
yeah; i recently installed PINN on a PI4 and was surprised to see how many OS'es were listed vs what's available in PINN for the 5. But i suppose over time 5 will have more as it has more power
@@JayRevealer still loads on Pi5, try this playlist
Everything Raspberry Pi. Over 750 Videos
th-cam.com/play/PLMJAjiTgBtFnaITgDfjTnsL9RlnyPTl7M.html
I suspect that this is a start point of where the Raspberry Pi struggles to remain relevant, this is why you are seeing fewer OSes on RPi 5 than on RPi 4.
True Open Source and maker enthusiasts like myself embraced the Raspberry Pi up to the RPi 3 when it was a cheap $35 computer that you put Linux on and then either stuck one on your electronics workbench for maker projects or gave one to a kid so they could learn Scratch programming on it - in either case, if it broke, it wasn't a big deal getting another one.
Since then you've had a plethora of cheaper micro-contoller boards being released in the Arduino, ESP32 and Pi Pico ranges which create very little reason now for maker projects to use the RPi. As for kids and programming, at that level anything you'd do on an RPi 5 can be done on an RPi 3, so there's no reason to go to the additional expense of RPi 5.
As well as that, if you're a skilled Linux builder like I am with Gentoo Linux, then I could care less how many OSes are released for each platform because I just build my own anyway - and I can do it on just about any SBC platform such as the Orange Pi range, many of which are much better value than RPi - take the Orange Pi Zero 3, for example, which has better specs than the RPi Zero 2W and costs anything between £13 to £25, depending on whether you want 1GB or 4GB RAM, which beats 512MB RAM on the RPi Zero 2W.
The main reason the RPi is so popular is because the support community and content creators like Lee here have helped to turn it into a near-consumer device that means anyone can find a step-by-step video on how to do anything with it. Unfortunately, Gen-X and younger generations have never been taught the patience to read manuals or do their own research and testing to the point where if I gave then an Orange Pi, or a used PC, and said to them "Put Linux on it" they wouldn't know where to even start - most of them can't even be bothered to search other YT channels to find videos that might help them, otherwise you wouldn't see requests for Lee here to make videos on specific topics when I know videos on those topics exist elsewhere on YT. (I doubt very few of them can even be bothered to read my comment here, but that's their loss and their right to remain uninformed.)
As far as I am concerned, the Pi Foundation has pandered far too much to the demands of gamers who just have wanted more and more power for emulation (and even crowbarring Windows and Steam onto the RPi) and they've completely lost their original direction. That's why they've recently launched the 1GB RPi 5 at $50 to try and capture back that original user base of makers and kid programmers by getting as close as they can to the original $35 price point.
Now, all of a sudden, we have lots of mini PCs appearing, and lots of used and good PC hardware appearing online, all of which has a better supported Intel platform (even though ARM support under Linux is very good, I could care less about bloated and privacy-hating Windows) and is as cheap as (or cheaper than) the RPi 5, once you factor in the additional costs of a case, cooling and a CPU. A 4GB RPi 5 is going to cost you around $100 when you've factored in case, cooling and PSU and that puts it in the same price range as many mini PCs now.
Plus the Pi Foundation appear to have completely abandoned the RPi Zero platform because it's completely "hemmed in" by micro-controllers on one side and bigger SBCs on the other - they made a mistake releasing the Zero 2 version without also at least doubling the RAM to 1GB which they could have kept at $35 with the smaller form factor and sacrificing the Ethernet port and a few USB ports.
I guess we'll see what happens going forward...
@@leepspvideo I'll give it a go. Thanks man !
@@willfettu2747 Am waiting for that as well. For Rpi4, in most cases I never have to tweak the config file much, but for Rpi5, that's a minimum for any OS except a few. For Rpi4, in most cases any OS be it konstakang worked right out of the box.
Still use Twister on one of my P1 4s. Always loved it.
I've still got Windows 10 now on X64, I don't want win 11
I tried twister yesterday on my pi 4. Lots of things are not working and even turned off. Box86 is not working and cant be updated. I am new to linux so that is a cul de sac for me. I wanted to turn my pi into a Pi OS unit when not switched into the retro pi like i had a few eyars ago. The Pi OS build used in the retropi stand alone does not work anymore and hags on install. This is the old one retropi says to get when you want to add retro onto an existing pi os build. Ive tried a few gaming based linux builds these last few days and none seem to do it or are not even worked on anymore. Like that monkejaro. That is 4 years old now and also does not work out of the box anymore. I managed to get recllbox workign today but i dotn see the PSX unit so that makes that install pointless as well.
My 2 younger daughters love Twister with their lil RPi4's.
Never had Luck trying to Install the Theme Manager on a Different OS
Thanks Lee I use Twister OS on my Pinebook Pro laptop with the RK3999 chip, although the last updates the screen now shows Armbian OS.
I wonder if I can use Twister on my recently ordered FydeTab Duo? I might try it on my recently received ClockworkPi Uconsole with the CM4 raspberry Pi module but not sure if it will work with the peripherals such as the keyboard and screen.
Have a great day!
why isnt Twister OS being continued any more ?
I thought they were on to something
@@BillyNoMates1974 key members left. It was rumoured to be carried on a few years back
I've never run Twister OS but having gone through its specification and contents, there is nothing contained within it that I can see that you couldn't build onto another base distro if you put in time and effort yourself to learn how to do it.
This is a constantly recurring theme amongst a huge percentage of the Raspberry Pi user base - they have in there possession a cheap computer platform that allows them to put any kind of Linux they want to on it, if they put in time and effort to learn how to do it. But they think it's a consumer-level device where they expect everyone else to put in all of the hard work to give them what they want.
Nobody reads manuals or FAQs / Wikis any more, very few people sit at a desk or workbench and just experiment. If it's not in a "step-by-step video" on here, they're not interested in trying stuff out for themselves and learning something new in the process.
Twister was an excellent project. Good for those, who wanted to test GNU/Linux with menus and colors they were accustomed to in other OSes. But alas...
I was impressed with it today but not much works anymore and it wont run the games i need it to. New to linix so cant figure it out. I am a windows person.
Just the Windows 95 theme alone is interesting enough for me to try it.
@@sahamal_savu before Twister we had Raspbian 95
Raspberry Pi 4. Raspbian 95 Retro Windows look with emulators including DOSBOX
th-cam.com/video/r1nuRWDp5tA/w-d-xo.html
Raspberry Pi 4. Raspbian 95 Games test. DOSBOX, PPSSPP and Redream
th-cam.com/video/h8XiKC8zgUI/w-d-xo.html
Friend, I have a specific device with an A311D2 SoC. I know there are several ARM-supported distros for it, but none for my specific device. If I use the procedure shown in the video, would it work with it?
@@TheSamuelbritto if the architecture is similar it may work, won’t be the same method
You need to do some of your own reseach here - I very quickly found some answers just by searching for "A311D2 Linux" which tells me you might have a Beelink or Khadas Vim board, for example.
You're probably not going to find a step-by-step video on how to do what you want with lesser-known boards like this and you probably need to go read a few web pages to get some idea of what to do with it.
I suggest that anyone with this type of non-mainstream board goes to the Armbian site first and see what they have there, there may be a version of that that you can install and boot from.
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Whatever happened to that?
A suggestion for Freesat Recordable 1TB 4K TV Box review update.
@@ryt4801 I don’t have a dish to use
Pls do the same with bazzite and the orange pi 5b 🥺
@@amitheahole. unfortunately they only support X86 not Arm devices
Some Arm images can be compatible with Orange Pi
Reborn OS Rock 5b RK3588 image working on Orange Pi 5.
th-cam.com/video/Qo4YTIwIZMY/w-d-xo.html
@leepspvideo sometimes I try to install arm compatible os with the right distro ofc and everything but it just doesn't work, I try with both SD card and the devtool and none work with some os's
@@leepspvideo isn't raspberry pi 5 arm64?
@@x-techpro Yes, why the question? Intel and AMD CPUs are all "amd64" from a Linux core architecture perspective but there are sub-architectures like "Ryzen", "Westlake" or "Ivybridge" that can have slightly different features in terms of compiler flags. How the code is compiled depends on whether or not the code can run on all architectures.
The RPi 3 was ARM Cortex A53 based, the RPi 4 was ARM Cortex A72 based, I can't remember what the RPi 5 is. Orange Pi's were ARM Cortex A7 originally then A53 around the Orange Pi 3 days. Again, these are all sub-architectures of "arm64" and it depends, again, on how the code is compiled as to whether it runs on all of them or not.
The other thing to bear in mind is the bootloaders are different - non-Raspberry Pi SBCs tend to use the "u-boot" bootloader, the RPi uses their own boot methodology - so a RPi distro image probably won't boot on an Orange Pi without a u-boot bootloader being installed.
@@amitheahole. See my reply to x-techpro below. It depends both on how the code is compiled (generic arm64 or more CPU specific) and what bootloaders are supported. Most non-RPi SBCs use the "u-boot" bootloader, RPi has their own boot mechanism.
Bro can you make a video about Mac OS big sur made by luke which is only compartable with raspberry pi 4 but . I have Raspberry pi 5 how can I run the os on pi 5
@@Prashudh.D.Gowda4254 try doing the same as this video
Like Linux Mint?
@@luigiprovencher th-cam.com/video/5t0CFZ6dfL0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9OSRed7NZfpwcfN1
I was waiting for a recent Linux Mint port too but it never came, now i have a n100 mini pc for that and skipped the pi5.
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