Thanks, very great tips! I tinkered around with my raspberry Pi 5 and tried Ubuntu 23.10 but it messed up everything. So I decided to watch your video and did a clean install like described from you. Now, my system runs perfectly and I still have Raspberry Pi OS but thanks to your tips with a great Gnome Desktop. Is it possible to install another Desktop like KDE in additional without messing the LXDE or the Gnome Desktop?
Nice to hear. Yes you can install more desktops. It will install lots of apps that do the same. I always have xfce4 and gnome on my desktop sbc. Just to be able to switch from wayland to x11 and to save a bit of memory use when needed.
Thank you for making this tutorial, it's much appreciated! Do you know if it's possible to boot Armbian from an nvme drive, also? I've tried and tried to get Armbian to boot from nvme on pi-5, but have gotten no where with it.
@@NicoDsSBCs Thank you for your reply! The 52pi nvme hat that I was using I discovered that it had stopped working after my last attempt to boot from it (it was no longer detected with lsblk command, no matter what I tried.) I have a Pimoroni nvme hat on the way to me now. I'm hoping that I can get Armbian to boot from it as that's my preferred OS.
@@NicoDsSBCs Ok, so you were right. I did get it to work, finally. My efforts to get the new nano "sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit" settings to save wasn't working, but I figured that out and it works now. I'm sorry for too many posts here.
After following the overclocking method. I'm getting stuck on the boot up screen tho, with the pi os logo and with a message on the lower left side corner saying: raspi-config.service . Any clues?
Good tips. I'm already doing all of these except #4. I'm not a fan of Snap. Actually, for server apps I do like Snap, but for desktop stuff I'd rather use apt or compile from source. I like LXQT on SBCs, and Gnome on fast computers. Gnome feels heavy on SBCs IMO. (Though to be honest I'm not sure whether I've tried it on the Raspberry Pi 5.)
I find Gnome a nice experience on RPi5. It used to be bad on most SBCs. But RPiOS has GPU drivers and CPU is pretty powerful. The GPU drivers don't perform well, but they work :) I also don't like snap, but it's an extra tool in the toolkit that can be handy when the apt version is broken.
I want to thank you for this video. I found the NvmE part very handy.
Happy to help.
Amazing guide! Thanks! I will follow it for a refreshed desktop!
Thanks for the tips! I hadn't considered adding snap. I may do that. Cheers!
Thanks, very great tips! I tinkered around with my raspberry Pi 5 and tried Ubuntu 23.10 but it messed up everything. So I decided to watch your video and did a clean install like described from you. Now, my system runs perfectly and I still have Raspberry Pi OS but thanks to your tips with a great Gnome Desktop. Is it possible to install another Desktop like KDE in additional without messing the LXDE or the Gnome Desktop?
Nice to hear.
Yes you can install more desktops.
It will install lots of apps that do the same. I always have xfce4 and gnome on my desktop sbc. Just to be able to switch from wayland to x11 and to save a bit of memory use when needed.
Thank you for making this tutorial, it's much appreciated! Do you know if it's possible to boot Armbian from an nvme drive, also? I've tried and tried to get Armbian to boot from nvme on pi-5, but have gotten no where with it.
I'm not sure if I tried to boot armbian from nvme. Should be the same as with rpios. Can't test now since I'm goin on a trip.
@@NicoDsSBCs Thank you for your reply! The 52pi nvme hat that I was using I discovered that it had stopped working after my last attempt to boot from it (it was no longer detected with lsblk command, no matter what I tried.) I have a Pimoroni nvme hat on the way to me now. I'm hoping that I can get Armbian to boot from it as that's my preferred OS.
@@NicoDsSBCs Raspi-OS works perfectly on the new Pimoroni nvme board. Thanks, again, for the great tutorial! Next I'll try Armbian.
@@NicoDsSBCs No, I can't get Armbian to work on nvme. I'm back on Raspi-OS again. Will wait for somebody to figure it out and make a tutorial.
@@NicoDsSBCs Ok, so you were right. I did get it to work, finally. My efforts to get the new nano "sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit" settings to save wasn't working, but I figured that out and it works now. I'm sorry for too many posts here.
After following the overclocking method. I'm getting stuck on the boot up screen tho, with the pi os logo and with a message on the lower left side corner saying: raspi-config.service .
Any clues?
@@xtrmsnpr lower the clocks. Not all soc can go that high. 2800 for cpu 950 for gpu.
@@NicoDsSBCs thx! That worked perfectly.
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Good tips.
I'm already doing all of these except #4. I'm not a fan of Snap. Actually, for server apps I do like Snap, but for desktop stuff I'd rather use apt or compile from source.
I like LXQT on SBCs, and Gnome on fast computers. Gnome feels heavy on SBCs IMO. (Though to be honest I'm not sure whether I've tried it on the Raspberry Pi 5.)
I find Gnome a nice experience on RPi5. It used to be bad on most SBCs. But RPiOS has GPU drivers and CPU is pretty powerful. The GPU drivers don't perform well, but they work :)
I also don't like snap, but it's an extra tool in the toolkit that can be handy when the apt version is broken.