Raspberry Pi OS
Feb 08, 2022
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A new Raspberry Pi OS release is something to celebrate, because free new things are great, right? Well yes and no in the case of the latest Raspberry Pi OS, which is based on Debian 11 Bullseye.
We’ll start with the good news. Overall the new Raspberry Pi OS feels faster, slicker and more “desktop” than its predecessors thanks to a new window manager, . However, this introduces only works with Pis fitted with 2GB of RAM or more, so that’s the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Compute Module 4. If you don’t meet the specs then it’ll default to the older window manager.
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