Raspberry pi os is based on debian. It seems to be much closer to it than ubountu. I do not see any difference personally except for some repos.
But, I do not care much for DE as long as it works - so I use the distro defaults. Perhaps you should check the source: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ As about using raspberry pi 5 as desktop replacement - that really depends on what you are replacing. If it is old pentium or early Intel core CPUs with 4GB or less RAM - then it will be darn fine replacement. If you are comparing it to less then 5 years old Intel/amd CPU with 8GB or more RAM - then not so much. Some are even running raspberry pi 5 from NVME SSD. Tomas On Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 01:14 MC_Sequoia <[email protected]> wrote: > "Perhaps some patient reader (with a tall screen) has read > down this far, and can suggest modular components for > laptop replacement. Bonus points if the kludge can talk > to the cell network IN ADDITION TO CAT6 ethernet." > > The 1st thing that comes to mind is Raspberry PI, A quick Google turned up > this video by a UK CS Prof. on this short (8 min) video entitled 'Can a > Raspberry Pi 5 be used as a desktop replacement?' > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INSbZ3URZf4 > > Seems like a reasonably good starting point. > > Unfortunately, on the Debian side there's this, "Currently there is no > support to Raspberry Pi 5 as it doesn't have enough support in upstream > Linux." > > Reference - https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPiImages > > I'm definitely a DebHead, but I've never done anything w. the Pi platform, > so I've nothing else to offer. > > HTH and I look forward to reading about any adventures in Raspbian Pi > land! >
