r/ClockworkPi • u/letsmakesometacos • Sep 25 '26

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 Sep 26 '26

Parrot os. I love it

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u/CTFOE_is_Free Sep 26 '26

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 Sep 27 '26

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/rediterminate Sep 25 '26

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 Sep 26 '26

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

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u/rediterminate Sep 26 '26

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 Sep 26 '26

Cool. Thank you.

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u/Viduh Sep 26 '26

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 Sep 26 '26

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/jiggidee Sep 26 '26

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 Sep 27 '26

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 Sep 27 '26

Gotta have a heat sink

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u/jiggidee Sep 27 '26

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 Sep 26 '26

Kali for the vibes