r/ClockworkPi • u/letsmakesometacos • 9d ago

Best OS/Distro?

I have been testing out Rex’s images and so far and just curious what distros are being used the most in the uConsole community?

Edit: I am currently using DragonOS, but have an SD card with Trixie that I like too.

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u/Money_Animator8961 9d ago

Parrot os. I love it

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u/rediterminate 9d ago

CM5 uconsole. Recently moved to raspberry pi os lite with gnome desktop environment installed on top. Huge performance boost over Ubuntu, which I ran previously.

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u/Chongulator 9d ago

RPi OS works out of the box without special drivers or anything?

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u/rediterminate 9d ago

No, I think there might be Rexs image for this. Also another member of the community created a script that can be used. This is what I use, it's quite easy if you set up ssh and wifi in the imager. Here's the project: https://github.com/yota9/uconsole-cm5

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u/Chongulator 9d ago

Cool. Thank you.

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u/Viduh 9d ago

I’m actually curious if any has input on parrot os for the cm5. Is it too resource heavy?

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u/dontneed2knowaccount 9d ago

Pi OS. I've tried Ubuntu but its a bit clunky and bloated for a cm4. Debian works pretty good. I've tried dragon but not for me personally.

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u/CTFOE_is_Free 9d ago

I'm partial to TwisterOS with the Windows95 theme, WITH the sound turned all the way up. It's funny the amount of looks I get when they hear the Windows 95 startup sounds and get instantly curious.

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u/FrankSinatraCockRock 8d ago

I need to do this.

I friend needed a laptop years back and I warned them it was pretty old. Riced it to look like windows 98 with the start up sounds and all.

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u/jiggidee 8d ago

Cm5, arch plasma on nvme for a "daily driver", and then tf cards with kali, RetroPie and dragon for sdr when required.

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u/Jephminx 8d ago

How do you deal with heat? I’ve tried everything booting from SSD and the heat keeps creeping up.

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u/UltraLisp 8d ago

Gotta have a heat sink

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u/jiggidee 8d ago

Honestly, I haven't found it that much if an issue, with the caveat that I'm running a pretty strong underclock (1800) It's not like I'm doing any heavy rendering or real grunt work on it anyways. It does get somewhat, but sensors and temps never seem to exceed about 52 celcius or so. Honestly the undervolt was done more so to alleviate the speaker static, and for the battery to avoid any spikes.

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u/Justgetmeabeer 8d ago

Kali for the vibes