Sorry if this question is asked too much (I am new to the forums) but I just want to know when you think the Raspberry Pi 5 is going to have official support. I recently got one for Christmas and I don’t really like the desktop look, and I really like the way Manjaro Linux is, the features are great and I love the look of it. This distro is one that I really want and there really isn’t any other linux distro that either supports Raspberry Pi 5 or isn’t too good. Thanks!
It is actually already officially supported. You can download a dev build from the github which is labeled as “RPI4”. Don’t worry about the naming scheme. Get the latest one and it will work with your Pi-5. These builds have the kernels for both RPI4 and RPI5. I have been using Manjaro ARM on my Pi-5 for quite a while and i consider it to be the best desktop OS for this device. It is definitely better than the official desktop OS which doesn’t really offer much functionality.
I don’t think I would want a dev build, they could have a lot of issues and bugs.
https://github.com/manjaro-arm/rpi4-images/releases
Go ahead and try the latest release on a spare sd card. I had no problems whatsoever. The only issue i had was with widevine support for Chromium (which was resolved, search the forum). And also, the latest Chromium requires a simple setting adjustment to work properly, which is easy to do. If you are using Firefox, everything works fine.
I don’t have a spare sd care for whatever reason.
dev build means build by dev, official build, quess.
As far as I can tell, and as @Sam_Fisher suggests, the support already exists, though nothing is offered in the repos at present. I don’t know how soon that might change.
Then I suppose you’re out of luck for the time being; but keep an eye open for breaking news.
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Sorry if I did anything wrong, but do you think I could do it with a USB stick?
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I have never used Raspberry Pi, nor Manjaro ARM, so I don’t have an answer for that question.
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A USB stick can be used for boot and storage.
rpi 5 is supported - using same image as rpi4.
I have rpi5-8G in production booting nvme storage.
Download from Github as mentioned above.
Better - use the installer script and follow instructions provided…
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Not necessary true. The RPI devices in the unstable branch has the latest kernel, firmware, overlays and eeprom images that is the same as the PiOS has with the latest bug fixes and new features. RPi has several fixes each week and the testing and stable branches are several, several months behind. True there may be some issues with the other files after a major update but they are usually resolved quickly. They are pretty much the exact same files that arch-arm uses for their stable and we get them from arch-arm.
I will never use anything except the unstable branch for my RPi devices as I keep all pi related files up to date. I can not say the same using other arm devices here as their related kernels and such has not been updated in several months.
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Thank you so much
@Sam_Fisher What size microSD card should I get?
You don’t even need one if you have a usb stick laying around. Even a 4GB storage medium will do. Ssd, hdd, usb stick, sd card, any of these things can be utilized.
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Ok, if I take the USB out, will it boot to the OS like an actual pc would or would it just boot to the SD card? Or can I just use the USB to get on the operating system, then install it all to the SD card (supposing it will erase the current OS)? Also, is a “.img.xz” image the file for the Raspberry Pi?
Can I use this installer with a USB Stick? @linux-aarhus
You can boot RPI5 with “anything”. It doesn’t have to be an sd card. It will default to an sd card so if you have one in the slot with an OS, just remove that card. Once it can’t detect an sd card, it will look at the usb drives for boot files. Once it finds them, it will boot to that medium.
Yes you can.