DietPi

Reader supplied reviews for DietPi Average rating 9.2 from 11 review(s) What are your thoughts on DietPi? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 10.39.208.27.96.346.0159 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 10.3 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-20 Country: Portugal Votes: 0 I've been using Dietpi on Raspberry Pis for many, many years, and I liked it so much that I simply installed it on all the machines available here, including laptops. I use it on my media servers, browse the internet, and everything stays cool. The only thing I can't comment on is gaming; I don't play games, but for everything else it's 10/10. Using Navidrome intensively, it serves my entire building on a "server" that's just an old HP laptop with a cracked screen, much like the ubiquitous Pi-hole. I've used good operating systems, but this one was the only one that fit my home, professional, and hobbyist needs perfectly. I start my day on an RPI and end it on a laptop, never switching systems. Universal. Simple. Magical. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 10.3 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-29 Country: Mexico Votes: 2 I've been running this distro in my Pi4 - 8GB for about six months and it has been a setup once and (almost) forget about it experience. The installation and setting up experience is way smoother than the one I usually had when installing ubuntu based distros (I used Ubuntu MATE's last RPi version). Setting things up is very straight forward even if you have no terminal experience. The system guides you and it could be in fact a great introductory distro for those who would like to learn to use the CLI. As for stability, I usually just keep the system updated. It is very light on resources and the Pi only throttles because of my cooling limitations, not because of the software. But that only happens when I move large amounts of data through the network for back-ups. The RaspberryPi is not, after all, designed to be a heavyload powerhouse (even if it IS a powerhouse on it's own, since mine has been running non-stop for around 5 years now). If you want to use a desktop enviroment, DietPi has a lot of options that do not undermine the system's efficiency, but I'll admit that I don't touch the GUI that much, so I'm unable to tell fellow users how clean that experience is. If you are looking for a distro that will not have you searching for tutorials on forums or Reddit for setting things up, this is your distro. The distro's site is very well documented on what packages if offers throught their DietPi-software tool with instructions on how to set things up in case that you are a bit lost. It will also help you decide on which software might be the best for you and your use case. All in all, this distro helped me convince myself that maybe using a Debian-based distro for my daily driver might not be that painful. I'd give it an 11, but 10 is as high as it goes. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 10.3 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-28 Country: South Korea Votes: 3 Why does nobody ever mention this distro when talking about self-hosting? It is a true champion, for whatever your needs are: Jellyfin, email or Wordpress. It has the most popular server software ready to be installed and auto-configured, which makes it all just a breeze. I have never had a single issue with this distro that wasn't caused by my own lack of knowledge or short-sightedness. 5/7, perfect distro. I cannot recommend this one enough for self-hosting purposes. And that can even come without the usual 'not for beginners' caveat. This distro does it all, and well. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 11 reader reviews of DietPi...