Raspberry Pi OS

Reader supplied reviews for Raspberry Pi OS Average rating 7.6 from 18 review(s) What are your thoughts on Raspberry Pi OS? 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: -- 2026-04-212025-05-132023-05-032020-12-022019-04-082018-11-132017-07-052015-02-16 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: 2026-04-21 Rating: 7 Date: 2026-06-29 Country: Honduras Votes: 1 Si yo tuviera que dar mi opinión sobre Raspberry Pi OS, diría que es un sistema operativo bastante sólido y práctico, aunque con ciertos detalles que podrían mejorar. Lo que más me gusta es que está basado en Debian, lo que significa que tengo acceso a una enorme cantidad de paquetes y actualizaciones constantes, más de 35,000 en total, lo cual me da mucha flexibilidad para instalar lo que necesito sin complicaciones. Además, está muy bien optimizado para el hardware de la Raspberry Pi, así que funciona de manera estable y confiable incluso en modelos más modestos. Herramientas como el SD Card Copier me han resultado muy útiles, porque simplifican tareas que en otros sistemas serían más técnicas y tediosas. También valoro que sea un sistema pensado para la educación y el aprendizaje, lo que lo convierte en una excelente opción para experimentar, programar y desarrollar proyectos personales o académicos. Ahora bien, no todo es perfecto. El entorno gráfico por defecto me parece algo limitado y poco atractivo en comparación con otras distribuciones más modernas. A veces siento que la experiencia de usuario podría ser más intuitiva, ya que ciertas configuraciones básicas están escondidas o requieren pasos adicionales para ajustarse correctamente. Esto puede ser un obstáculo para quienes buscan algo más pulido o listo para usar sin tanta personalización. En mi caso, aunque disfruto la estabilidad y la compatibilidad que ofrece, reconozco que la interfaz y la facilidad de uso todavía tienen margen de mejora. En conclusión, Raspberry Pi OS me parece una opción semi positiva: cumple muy bien con lo esencial, es estable, confiable y perfecto para proyectos educativos o de desarrollo, pero aún le falta evolucionar en la parte estética y en la experiencia de usuario para ser realmente competitivo frente a otras distribuciones más completas y atractivas. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025-12-04 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-01-28 Votes: 2 The newest release 2025-12-04 is basically the same, but change a lot. I run on RPI5 4GB from USB3-dongle, and the lightweight tools packed with the distro do their work. stability is rock-solid. Looking at the app-menu, a lot of item have been removed, and the control centre integrate a lot of tools saddly a lot of basic settings are missing user manager, smb-share manager, keyring, theming. worse, the printer settings do hide the menu, solution is using localhost:631 or install the old system-config-printer (this will remove the entry from the control-centre) sudo apt install system-config-printer sudo usermod -aG lpadmin $USER Geany is finally updated, plugins are compatible. also raspi-config menu entry has been deleted (must have tool expand filesystem) future release will improve those regressions, and maybe add some touch-display friendly apps theming is not available, the imposed look is not exciting, but not buggy? pcmanfm seems a lot less buggy, but still very basic Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2025-12-04 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-12-09 Votes: 3 For hardware reference, this evaluation was from use on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4 GB RAM (OK, actually 3887864 KB), running on Amazon 256 GB SD Cards with no hats or other GPIO header connections, using a case that is its own heat sink (no fan). For further OS relevance, we used the Raspberry PI imager, Raspberry Pi OS (Other), Raspberry PI OS Full (64 bit) [ 1.9 GB versus 1.2 GB for Raspberry PI OS (64-bit) ] Not even withstanding that this operating system (OS) is designed to run on a tiny single-board computer (Raspberry PI 4 and 5), this OS is amazingly snappy, with minor exceptions. The exceptions are not germain specifically to this OS: rather to its Debian underpinnings and to IP transit across the globe. Particularly impressive was the SD Card Copier app which is significantly faster than the standard Linux (dd) disk copy procedure. It apparently duplicates the partitions and then duplicates the files in the partitions, reducing the process from about 4 hours to just several minutes. WE RECOMMEND YOU DO MAKE A BACKUP IMAGE immediately as it's significantly faster to recover from a terminal mistake than re-downloading the OS to fix the problem. Exceptions: (1) Where Debian updates rely on Fastly DNS, the OS tends to require several attempts to access the Debian update server but if you have access to Fastly, it will eventually connect on several retries. This is solely a consequence of Debian: RaspOS's underpinnings. (2) Where the "Recommended Software" app accesses Raspian BluSky servers (across the "Pond"), we experienced it will connect after a couple of attempts. (Maybe that was our DNS or IP transit.) (3) The screen blanker (Preferences - Control Center - Display) went "Out to Lunch" for us...and never came back. We had to reboot. We disabled the screen blanker and everything was fine. (4) Drag-and-Drop from desktop folder to folder didn't work for us at all. This seems minor as we're completely competent to copy files using the Command Line Interface (CLI). It seems relevant to note that, as a result of our testing of this OS, we've adopted this OS (and consequently its native hardware) to standardize around for single-board computers. Discouraging "gotcha's": o- If, in the course of installation, you ask for Chrome and to have Firefox removed, it won't. You have to remove Firefox manually using the "Add-Remove Software" app. That works just fine. o- We have no idea what the root password is for RaspiOS but we'd suggest you make a point of changing it, since everyone else may know the password. o- In the course of installation (Raspberry PI Imager), it's probably best to set the name and location of the server since Chromium is sensitive to changing the server name. It may seem excessive but it's probably a good idea. o- If running RaspiOS on a Raspberry PI on a Raspberry PI 4, without a built-in clock, it's possible to get into trouble if you don't remember to sync the time on every boot (rc.local and timesyncd or something else). Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 18 reader reviews of Raspberry Pi OS...