
RASPBERRY PI 4/400
INTRODUCTION
Isn’t it insane how fast the computers have shifted in power & size over just about one single generation? When I was a child I would play games on a Nintendo Entertainment System, and an Amiga 1200. Both with computing power far from what we have today, and now we have computers in our pockets, limited from their full capabilities, because money… Anyway, in all we still have super small one card computers that we can basically explore and do whatever we want with. Isn’t that great?
I now create this post, since I have gotten a bit tired of searching for links to the many different operating systems that you can install on the RPi’s. I basically have to remember things, since all the options aren’t added in the Raspberry Pi Imager. A really nice piece of software, created to flash storage media in the use of a Raspberry Pi. Everyone have different needs.
There are countless sites stating all kinds of stuff regarding the usage, and there are even some really irritating sites with some limited choices like; “here is 5/10/15/23 different operating systems that you can install on your Raspberry Pi 4” etc. but still Manjaro or Pop!_OS isn’t even on the lists. I don’t aim to create the most comprehensive thing ever compiled, but I do want to create a post that I can go back to in order to find what I’m looking for, and I hope that others will also get some help from it. If I feel for it, I will probably update this post sporadically.
OPERATING A RASPBERRY PI
It’s just junk laying around if it can’t be commanded, right? So we would need an operating system, and I am not really the best person to compile such a list, but I will try. There are many different ways of obtaining the distro’s for the RPi’s, but one of the easiest would probably be the …
To install an operating system to a m.2 SATA or NVMe drive could sometimes be quite tedious, but I tend to create a Raspberry Pi OS microSD card on my computer, then download whatever system I really want to use to that microSD card while actually using the RPi, and then install the system of choice to the m.2 device with the Imager that is already installed.
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WHAT ARE YOUR CHOICES?
DAILY DRIVER OPERATING SYSTEM FLAVOURS
The Imager has a lot of different installation choices & options, but I thought it might be a good thing to show some previews to the many choices there are in the day to day systems, and other’s that aren’t in the Raspberry Pi Imager.
There are at this moment still operating systems missing from the imager, such as Pop!_OS that was created by System76, a Linux centric company that sells computers that are supposed to just work out of the box, and with their own Linux distribution called Pop!_OS. Back in 2021 they also managed to create an arm-based version for the Raspberry Pi.
This is probably my favourite distribution flavour to install on a raspberry pi, it’s fast and responsive. Looks good and transcends the many other GNOME based desktops in visuals.
EMULATION SYSTEM FLAVOURS
Emulation is one big scene within the Raspberry Pi community especially for the creation of Arcade machines and for game projects regarding restoration of old games and systems. Here are the top systems, I will try to find others too.
WHAT MORE CAN YOU DO WITH THE RPi?
THE REAL QUESTION IS "WHAT CAN I NOT DO WITH THE RPi?"
The usage of a Raspberry Pi have become so diverse that there isn’t really anything that it can’t do, the imagination is what actually stops the creative flow. You could always read up on Raspberry Pi projects to see what people have actually been creating or done with the hardware. Raspberry Pi comes in different versions, that are used for different things. It’s the Raspberry Pi 4 & 400 that are the more daily usage friendly. The others are made for tinker projects of all kinds.
