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Picking the wrong Raspberry Pi OS will kill your first project faster than bad hardware ever could

Lightweight distros and modular desktops let you squeeze performance from small SBCs while keeping setup approachable for newcomers.

Raspberry Pi OS spruces up the desktop

The desktop of Raspberry Pi OS feels a bit dated by now. The developers are now giving it a facelift.
XDA Developers

I squeezed DietPi onto a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and it replaced my $50-a-month cloud setup

DietPi’s lean footprint unlocks a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W that hosts secure backups, ad filtering and browser tools.
Hackaday

raspberry os

Raspberry Pi boards are no longer constrained – these days, you can get a quad-core board with 8 or 16GB of RAM to go around, equip it with a heatsink, and get a decently comfortable shop/desk/kitchen ...