Raspberry Pi performance

[PCTechBoi]

I am going to get the raspberry pi 4B 8gb model, what is the best OS to flash to it that is compatable with the “Pi apps” application.

 

Edited March 30, 2021 by PCTechBoi
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[Bombastinator]

24 minutes ago, PCTechBoi said:

I am going to get the raspberry pi 4B 8gb model, what is the best OS to flash to it that is compatable with the “Pi apps” application.

 

I forget what OS the thing comes with.  It used to have its own OS which might be what “pi apps” is supposed to run on. A standard Linux came out for them sort of recently.  I suspect it wil be that or pi OS.  Decent chance you won’t want to flash anything.

[coderrquitsreality]

I use Debian Lite, one of the OSes made for the Pi. Debian Lite is nice if you run a server, the GPU and RAM isn't used much, but there's Debian Full, which is another OS for the Pi, but has a desktop environment.

[-iSynthesis]

18 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I forget what OS the thing comes with.  It used to have its own OS which might be what “pi apps” is supposed to run on. A standard Linux came out for them sort of recently.  I suspect it wil be that or pi OS.  Decent chance you won’t want to flash anything.

The OS is called Raspbian (well, apparently they renamed it to Raspberry Pi OS): https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/