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 ...

There have been times when it seemed like X Window System would be with us forever, even though it’s more than 40 years old, and the last true version was issued in 2012. But with great effort, some ...

Looking at the hardware, the Raspberry Pi 400 is effectively an optimized Raspberry Pi 4 Model B built into a keyboard. Students and tinkerers get a PC with a small footprint, a low price, and great ...

Raspberry Pi OS, the main recommended operating system for Raspberry Pi computers, just received a helpful update. This might be the last version based on Debian 12 ‘Bookworm,’ ahead of the expected ...

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 ...

One of the more exciting prospects upon receiving one of the earliest Raspberry Pi boards back in 2012 was that it was a fully-functional desktop computer in the palm of your hand. In those far-off ...

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 ...

Raspberry Pi has just released its new computer-in-a-keyboard, the Raspberry Pi 500, the successor to the Raspberry Pi 400. It shares most of the same internal components as the Raspberry Pi 5, but ...