Pick the best Raspberry Pi desktop OS for 2026, including Pi 5 and Pi 4 support, plus a 170MB Diet Pi base install.

Have you ever wondered how to turn your Raspberry Pi 5 into a sleek, ultra-lightweight desktop system? While many Linux distributions promise simplicity, few can match the sheer efficiency of Alpine ...

Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 Trixie, lands with meaningful quality of life updates that you notice the moment the desktop loads. It is not just a new base with fresher packages. The team has ...

A Raspberry Pi can be many things, including a desktop computer. While you're probably not meant to purchase one with the intention of it replacing your main PC, that doesn't mean people don't try. A ...

Raspberry Pi OS, originally named Raspbian, had a few big updates added to it on September 7, 2022. A good portion of those include UI and UX improvements such as new keyboard shortcuts, support for ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the company responsible for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer range, has announced that it is releasing a desktop version of its Pixel operating system, originally ...

Raspberry Pi was originally aimed at students and hobbyists, and it can now function as a Linux computer. And if support for Microsoft’s Windows 10 desktop OS is added to the latest Raspberry Pi 3, it ...

I got a Raspberry Pi 400 a while ago and it's great for local web development and running all kinds of Docker containers, even with only 4 GB RAM. Before I screwed something up, it had a decent ...

On the heels of the Debian 9 Stretch release, Raspberry Pi's Debian-based Raspbian OS has been updated and is now available for download. The new Stretch version of Raspbian, the official OS for ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation just revealed an early Christmas present for all the good little Linux lovers and Raspberry Pi fans in the world, as the organization announced they’ve ported an early ...

Debian 11, dubbed 'bullseye' and the successor to 'buster', arrived in August and now the makers of the Raspberry Pi have finally updated Raspberry Pi (RPi) OS to this version. The move to Debian 11 ...

Raspberry Pi was originally aimed at students and hobbyists, and it can now function as a Linux computer. And if support for Microsoft’s Windows 10 desktop OS is added to the latest Raspberry Pi 3, it ...