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Best OS for your Raspberry Pi?
With a Raspberry Pi, you’ve got a lot of options for choosing your OS. The default OS from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is Raspberry Pi OS (formerly called Raspbian). This is a Debian based OS. But is there something better?
Our top choices
We think these OS choices are even better than the default options:
- DietPi
- CasaOS
- Pop!_OS
- Armbian
- Manjaro
- Emteria – Android based
- Lineage OS – Android based
- FydeOS – Chromium OS based
- ProxMox – Virtual machines & containers
- Open Media Vault – NAS (or YouTube video)