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

If you own a Raspberry Pi, you can start several operating systems from a single boot medium. All you need is a micro SD card with sufficient room (32GB or more) and a tool called PINN. This stands ...

I’ve been waiting for the Raspberry Pi 5 to feel like more than a capable project box. The hardware is finally strong enough that the desktop experience can be the main point, not an optional extra.

Raspberry Pi OS is now available in a 64-bit version, up from the previous 32-bit iteration, after a long public beta process lasting just over a year. Interestingly, this is a case where the ...

The Raspberry Pi series of boards are noted for their good software support, with a continuous flow of operating system upgrades such that an original Pi from 2012 will still boot the latest Pi OS.

Over the years there have been so many times when Microsoft came up with a product that so nearly got it right, but which tanked in the market because the folks at Redmond had more of an eye to what ...

In the previous three posts about exploring my Raspberry Pi, the operating system has always been Linux; first looking at Raspbian, the Debian GNU/Linux spin for the Pi, then Arch Linux ARM and Pidora ...