Linux distribution REVIEWS
Ultramarine Linux
Les Pounder knows that good looks will only get you so far, and Ultramarine Linux has the looks, but sadly none of the performance.
We overclocked our Raspberry Pi 4 8GB to 2.1GHz (Neofetch reported 2.2GHz, but it was wrong) and we still had a slow experience.
IN BRIEF
Based upon Fedora, Ultramarine Linux has nothing to do with a Space Marine chapter; instead, it’s a great-looking, if sadly flawed, Linux distro. Even on an overclocked, USB-to-NVMepowered Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, it struggled. How it would perform on microSD is something we dared not test.
Utramarine Linux is based upon the venerable Fedora, and the distro touts itself as an OS for work and play, for all levels of user. It hits the mark in ease of use, but this would not become our daily driver, just yet. You see, Ultramarine Linux is only available for the Pi 3, 4 and 400, all of which have now been superseded by the Pi 5. Ultramarine Linux could really do with the power of the Pi 5, as it runs slow, even on our overclocked (2.1GHz) 8GB Pi 4, running from a USB-to-NVMe drive. The boot time is laboriously slow, taking two minutes and one second to reach the login prompt. Ouch!