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7.7 from 10 review(s)
Version: 2023-05-03
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-28
Votes: 0
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The RaspiOS on the Pi4 just gets better.
However, the likelihood of using it as my daily driver just went to zero, but this is NOT the fault of RaspiOS ...
Google has now removed the ability for Citrix Workspace to run on a Chrome browser - if the OS is not ChromeOS:
"Citrix Workspace app for ChromeOS is supported only on ChromeOS. The app is no longer supported on non-ChromeOS platform."
And even though Citrix has released an arn64 Linux version, there is no full support for Teams:
"The following features aren’t supported on Citrix Workspace app for Linux when using ARM64 architecture-based devices:
Optimized Microsoft Teams
Optimized Skype for Business (RTOP/RTME)
Browser Content Redirection (BCR)
Multimedia redirection"
So, no more full-functionality Citrix Workspace on the Pi4 + RaspiOS + Chromium. How annoying.
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Version: 2022-09-22
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-01
Votes: 3
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The arm64 version has progressed well. I.e. "Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)."
The Xfce desktop environment works well.
Chromium seems to run a little faster than in the beta arm64 versions. (I assume the dev team have been working on further optimisation?)
HDMI sound in Chromium now works without having to make a post-installation tweak.
I no longer need the armhf architecture to run Citrix Workspace - I discovered you can run it in Chromium by installing a Google Chrome (yes, Chrome) "Citrix Workspace" extension (NOT the "Citrix Workspace Web" extension).
I would prefer no systemd. (I'm now trailing Alpine Linux on my RPi 4B for that reason.)
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Version: 2022-04-04
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-04
Votes: 24
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This is for RaspberryPi-OS for PC. Debian Bullseye. 32-bit
I installed this on an older Dell inspiron E1505. Tiny dual core, 4 GB's Ram, 32GB SSD. A very low powered laptop, that should have been recycled long ago. I just hated to do that. I tried several other distros before settling on this. This distro worked well on first install. All drivers were installed, even Bluetooth. It is very light on resources. It has allowed this old tired PC, with some older parts to be useful again. Like the tiny 32GB SSD. Typically too small for PC use. Total install with the software I wanted and I still have almost 20GB to spare.
I know it is not much, but it does emails, casual browsing, youtube videos, and movies really well. I have a CD burner and I make music CD's with it. This is not of course my daily, but if I had to, it could be used in a tight. It just works.
This could be put on any old PC, and given to children to learn on, and play with. If they break the OS, just reinstall and go again. Its easy to install, no special knowledge needed. Easy to set up, and get the software you want installed.
I guess this would run really fast on a not so old or new PC, and could replace any other OS as a general daily driver. It has a pleasing looking desktop, easy to navigate to files
I can not really think of many cons that really amount to much. Depends on what you do with a PC I guess. There will be certain things this will not do well. I do hope for a 64 bit PC version to be able to make use of more ram. But so far I have not needed more then the 4GB's installed.
I will say Linux has come such a long ways. Long gone are the days you need a cheat sheet with a bunch of commands and a degree to install it. It is so user friendly now, Sure there is a learning curve, but it has been shortened drastically. Especially little distros like Raspberry PI.
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Version: 2022-04-04
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-06-06
Votes: 0
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The arm64 version has progressed well. I.e. "Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)."
The Xfce desktop environment works well.
Chromium seems to run a little faster than in the beta arm64 versions. (I assume the dev team have been working on further optimisation?)
HDMI sound in Chromium now works without having to make a post-installation tweak.
I no longer need the armhf architecture to run Citrix Workspace - I discovered you can run it in Chromium by installing a Google Chrome (yes, Chrome) "Citrix Workspace" extension (NOT the "Citrix Workspace Web" extension).
I would prefer no systemd. (I'm now trailing Alpine Linux on my RPi 4B for that reason.)
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Version: 2022-04-04
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-19
Votes: 3
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The arm64 version has progressed well. I.e. "Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)."
The Xfce desktop environment works well.
Chromium seems to run a little faster than in the beta arm64 versions. (I assume the dev team have been working on further optimisation?)
HDMI sound in Chromium now works without having to make a post-installation tweak.
I no longer need the armhf architecture to run Citrix Workspace - I discovered you can run it in Chromium by installing a Google Chrome (yes, Chrome) "Citrix Workspace" extension (NOT the "Citrix Workspace Web" extension).
I would prefer no systemd. (I'm now trailing Alpine Linux on my RPi 4B for that reason.)
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Version: 2021-10-30
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-13
Votes: 2
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It always amazes me when this free stuff works so well. So, I am pretty happy to give this one a "10", even though others may be a bit more critical of the OS.
I have recently installed the arm64/64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS ... the "Lite" version, on my RPi 4B. It's available if you know where to look, and seems pretty complete.
I then installed Xfce on top, which is my current favourite desktop environment ... and that works as well on the Raspberry Pi as my PC (albeit a little slower).
You can then select the armhf (32-bit) architecture and install things like Citrix Workspace (currently only available in armhf), and that works well too.
The only hiccup was getting Chromium to play sound across HDMI, but I soon found on the web a Chromium workaround for that.
What a cool little OS running on a cool little device!
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Version: 2021-05-28
Rating: 6
Date: 2021-10-31
Votes: 0
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my setup:
running RPI 4 with 8 gig of RAM.
CONS:
This is only 32 bit OS( ARM processor is capable of running 64 bit. )
Only 700 MHz when it can be overclocked to 3 times that.
UI is ancient like Windows 2000
You better off install Arch's ARM OS that supports 64 bit and then overclock this .
PROS:
The hardware is super energy efficient and compact with lots of supports for different modules.
The official OS is lagging at least 20 years behind. horrible. The OS and hardware needs a lot tighter intergration
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Version: 2021-03-04
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-04-25
Votes: 0
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BOTTOM LINE: One of the worst distros ever, basically unusable.
This is the most buggy (and hands-down the worst) Debian-based distro I've ever used, and I used many. Basic tools for everyday work, like LibreOffice, take forever to load. Many of the pre-installed packages, including the pre-shipped Sonic Pi, do not work at all. Included non-CLI tools for package management and installation work extremely slowly, make it problematic to access basic software utilities that should work perfectly fine on my hardware, and installing Synaptic (not-included) does not really solve the problem. Given that the system doesn't include even a utility for flashing .iso images to USB, and is the only Linux distro I've yet encountered that does not include Vim and makes installing Emacs a pain, the system is simply unusable — and my needs are really pretty basic, revolving against text editing and processing plus a little bit of a very, very unsophisticated sound recording.
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Version: 2021-03-04
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-03-27
Votes: 7
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Raspbian has some pretty dumb quirks that it needs to sort out.
While its performance is pretty good when compared to other ARM OS', the ones I've tried anyway, it seems to have two problems that I cannot get around - sound doesn't work, or does poorly, and the services do whatever they want.
Sound in Linux seems to me like it's black magic - it either works or it doesn't, and in either case I don't know why. What really irks me though is services that I've disabled at least three times, either via systemctl or update-rc.d, keep coming back after booting.
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Version: 2020-12-02
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-03
Votes: 23
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The PC (x86) version is fantastic. It is one of the lightest distributions I have ever used and runs well on single core 32-bit machines. Along with the performance, it is quite attractive as it follows Raspberry Pi's colorful branding. This is basically Debian with a customized desktop environment, but it also includes some non-free drivers for ease of use. The excellent Raspberry Pi website has great documentation and how-to guides.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2023-05-03
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-28
Votes: 0
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The RaspiOS on the Pi4 just gets better.
However, the likelihood of using it as my daily driver just went to zero, but this is NOT the fault of RaspiOS ...
Google has now removed the ability for Citrix Workspace to run on a Chrome browser - if the OS is not ChromeOS:
"Citrix Workspace app for ChromeOS is supported only on ChromeOS. The app is no longer supported on non-ChromeOS platform."
And even though Citrix has released an arn64 Linux version, there is no full support for Teams:
"The following features aren’t supported on Citrix Workspace app for Linux when using ARM64 architecture-based devices:
Optimized Microsoft Teams
Optimized Skype for Business (RTOP/RTME)
Browser Content Redirection (BCR)
Multimedia redirection"
So, no more full-functionality Citrix Workspace on the Pi4 + RaspiOS + Chromium. How annoying.
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2022-09-22
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-01
Votes: 3
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The arm64 version has progressed well. I.e. "Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)."
The Xfce desktop environment works well.
Chromium seems to run a little faster than in the beta arm64 versions. (I assume the dev team have been working on further optimisation?)
HDMI sound in Chromium now works without having to make a post-installation tweak.
I no longer need the armhf architecture to run Citrix Workspace - I discovered you can run it in Chromium by installing a Google Chrome (yes, Chrome) "Citrix Workspace" extension (NOT the "Citrix Workspace Web" extension).
I would prefer no systemd. (I'm now trailing Alpine Linux on my RPi 4B for that reason.)
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2022-04-04
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-04
Votes: 24
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This is for RaspberryPi-OS for PC. Debian Bullseye. 32-bit
I installed this on an older Dell inspiron E1505. Tiny dual core, 4 GB's Ram, 32GB SSD. A very low powered laptop, that should have been recycled long ago. I just hated to do that. I tried several other distros before settling on this. This distro worked well on first install. All drivers were installed, even Bluetooth. It is very light on resources. It has allowed this old tired PC, with some older parts to be useful again. Like the tiny 32GB SSD. Typically too small for PC use. Total install with the software I wanted and I still have almost 20GB to spare.
I know it is not much, but it does emails, casual browsing, youtube videos, and movies really well. I have a CD burner and I make music CD's with it. This is not of course my daily, but if I had to, it could be used in a tight. It just works.
This could be put on any old PC, and given to children to learn on, and play with. If they break the OS, just reinstall and go again. Its easy to install, no special knowledge needed. Easy to set up, and get the software you want installed.
I guess this would run really fast on a not so old or new PC, and could replace any other OS as a general daily driver. It has a pleasing looking desktop, easy to navigate to files
I can not really think of many cons that really amount to much. Depends on what you do with a PC I guess. There will be certain things this will not do well. I do hope for a 64 bit PC version to be able to make use of more ram. But so far I have not needed more then the 4GB's installed.
I will say Linux has come such a long ways. Long gone are the days you need a cheat sheet with a bunch of commands and a degree to install it. It is so user friendly now, Sure there is a learning curve, but it has been shortened drastically. Especially little distros like Raspberry PI.
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2022-04-04
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-06-06
Votes: 0
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The arm64 version has progressed well. I.e. "Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)."
The Xfce desktop environment works well.
Chromium seems to run a little faster than in the beta arm64 versions. (I assume the dev team have been working on further optimisation?)
HDMI sound in Chromium now works without having to make a post-installation tweak.
I no longer need the armhf architecture to run Citrix Workspace - I discovered you can run it in Chromium by installing a Google Chrome (yes, Chrome) "Citrix Workspace" extension (NOT the "Citrix Workspace Web" extension).
I would prefer no systemd. (I'm now trailing Alpine Linux on my RPi 4B for that reason.)
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2022-04-04
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-19
Votes: 3
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The arm64 version has progressed well. I.e. "Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit)."
The Xfce desktop environment works well.
Chromium seems to run a little faster than in the beta arm64 versions. (I assume the dev team have been working on further optimisation?)
HDMI sound in Chromium now works without having to make a post-installation tweak.
I no longer need the armhf architecture to run Citrix Workspace - I discovered you can run it in Chromium by installing a Google Chrome (yes, Chrome) "Citrix Workspace" extension (NOT the "Citrix Workspace Web" extension).
I would prefer no systemd. (I'm now trailing Alpine Linux on my RPi 4B for that reason.)
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2021-10-30
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-13
Votes: 2
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It always amazes me when this free stuff works so well. So, I am pretty happy to give this one a "10", even though others may be a bit more critical of the OS.
I have recently installed the arm64/64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS ... the "Lite" version, on my RPi 4B. It's available if you know where to look, and seems pretty complete.
I then installed Xfce on top, which is my current favourite desktop environment ... and that works as well on the Raspberry Pi as my PC (albeit a little slower).
You can then select the armhf (32-bit) architecture and install things like Citrix Workspace (currently only available in armhf), and that works well too.
The only hiccup was getting Chromium to play sound across HDMI, but I soon found on the web a Chromium workaround for that.
What a cool little OS running on a cool little device!
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2021-05-28
Rating: 6
Date: 2021-10-31
Votes: 0
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my setup:
running RPI 4 with 8 gig of RAM.
CONS:
This is only 32 bit OS( ARM processor is capable of running 64 bit. )
Only 700 MHz when it can be overclocked to 3 times that.
UI is ancient like Windows 2000
You better off install Arch's ARM OS that supports 64 bit and then overclock this .
PROS:
The hardware is super energy efficient and compact with lots of supports for different modules.
The official OS is lagging at least 20 years behind. horrible. The OS and hardware needs a lot tighter intergration
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2021-03-04
Rating: 1
Date: 2021-04-25
Votes: 0
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BOTTOM LINE: One of the worst distros ever, basically unusable.
This is the most buggy (and hands-down the worst) Debian-based distro I've ever used, and I used many. Basic tools for everyday work, like LibreOffice, take forever to load. Many of the pre-installed packages, including the pre-shipped Sonic Pi, do not work at all. Included non-CLI tools for package management and installation work extremely slowly, make it problematic to access basic software utilities that should work perfectly fine on my hardware, and installing Synaptic (not-included) does not really solve the problem. Given that the system doesn't include even a utility for flashing .iso images to USB, and is the only Linux distro I've yet encountered that does not include Vim and makes installing Emacs a pain, the system is simply unusable — and my needs are really pretty basic, revolving against text editing and processing plus a little bit of a very, very unsophisticated sound recording.
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2021-03-04
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-03-27
Votes: 7
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Raspbian has some pretty dumb quirks that it needs to sort out.
While its performance is pretty good when compared to other ARM OS', the ones I've tried anyway, it seems to have two problems that I cannot get around - sound doesn't work, or does poorly, and the services do whatever they want.
Sound in Linux seems to me like it's black magic - it either works or it doesn't, and in either case I don't know why. What really irks me though is services that I've disabled at least three times, either via systemctl or update-rc.d, keep coming back after booting.
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Project: Raspberry Pi OS
Version: 2020-12-02
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-01-03
Votes: 23
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The PC (x86) version is fantastic. It is one of the lightest distributions I have ever used and runs well on single core 32-bit machines. Along with the performance, it is quite attractive as it follows Raspberry Pi's colorful branding. This is basically Debian with a customized desktop environment, but it also includes some non-free drivers for ease of use. The excellent Raspberry Pi website has great documentation and how-to guides.
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