It may be the Pi product they don’t talk about much, but you can still find it on their downloads page. Since 2016 when it was launched as PIXEL, the folks in Cambridge have also maintained a PC version for 32-bit i386 computers, now called Raspberry Pi Desktop. Raspberry Pi OS doesn’t run on any other ARM single board computers but their own, but it’s not quite accurate to say that it only runs on Raspberry Pi hardware. The OS They Don’t Really Tell You About The background image may have changed since the first release back in 2016, but the UI hasn’t. I can download their latest OS image and still run it on that 2012 board, which to me ranks as a very laudable achievement. While they rarely have the fastest or highest spec hardware, you can depend on Raspberry Pi OS being updated and supported through the life of the board unlike many of their competitors. I’ve said before on these pages that the Raspberry Pi folks’ key product is their OS rather than their computers. It wasn’t in any way fast, but it was usable enough to be more than a novelty. In those far-off days, the Debian OS distro for the board wasn’t even yet called Raspbian, but it would run a full-on desktop on your TV and you could use it after a fashion to browse the web or do wordprocessing. One of the more exciting prospects upon receiving one of the earliest Raspberry Pi boards back in 2012 was that it was a fully-functional desktop computer in the palm of your hand.
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