10 Alternative Raspberry Pi Operating Systems

Got a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 and want to try something different than Raspberry Pi OS? I take a look at 10 alternative Operating Systems that you can use on your Raspberry Pi in 2020.

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[heidirichter]

That last OS option reminds me so much of me trying to run Windows 3.1 on PCTask on my A1200 with only a RAM expansion back in the day, haha.

[SabretoothBarnacle]

RiscOS takes me right back to the last year of primary school when the class saw an Archimedes for the first time - mind blown 💥

[ninline]

I just installed the 64bit version of Ubuntu Mate on my Pi4. It's pretty sweet, I'm using it now and so far it's flawless despite being a beta build. Next up is Amiberry.

[kaminutter]

A nice video, BBC Basic can be ran from RiscOS by using the star command BASIC, so if you want you can write your own games for the PI fairly easily.

[proges]

Raspberry in particular, is giving me that feeling I had with the amiga in the old days ...
change "floppy disks" with the sd card.
A hardware not so powerful but powerful enough to have everything comfortable and try in every way to improve it to make it perform at its best.
A whole community more focused on a single hardware, accessible to all. I especially like how everyone is focused on rasberry pi os, which then the improvements are also reflected on the other compatible linux distros ...
I don't mean a blasphemy, but in my opinion, it really reincarnates the spirit of amiga as community, I mean the feeling of when I was a teenager and I had a lot of friends focused on that hardware that was the amiga exchanging software and advice to improve it and improve ourselves ...
that was the real "Amiga" spirit ... which in Italian is similar to "Amico" means "friend" of which I am realizing that I am really nostalgic.

[marcdraco]

Dan - Batocera is a really neat addition to the games emulators system. It's surprisingly well done.

[NijimaSan]

I am so out of the loop. I’ve never even heard of Raspberry Pi until his video. I need to get back in the game.

[silurust]

Gentoo was a great idea to try. Thanks for the tip. Now, next to Manjaro for ARM, it offers a very good alternative for everyday desktop computing on Raspberry Pi.

[Tall_Order]

During the time your schools were using Acorn Archimedes, my school used Apple II/e. I was surprised when one of my classes got a Apple II GS. I thought it was a Mac at first. My first time seeing a Mac was the LLC and it was in the school media center.I used to skip lunch hour just to mess with that. Then one day I saw a Mac Plus. Boy did I toy around with that! I even yelled at another student for deleting the System Folder contents. I helped the media center fix it. I even made copies of the startup disks and passed one to each teacher.

[CreativeBrainsOrganization]

You missed Twister OS from this list....I don’t know why, but it is a great OS for Raspberry pi

[james-brgm]

I was hoping to see recommendations for secure operating systems e.g. which run all connections over TOR and encrypt your data by default as well as making verifying PGP signatures easy.

[ActionRetro]

I can't wait until Haiku is working on Raspi!

[mikemcdonald]

My favorite is (Twister 2.0) it comes with all the Raspbian X themes, like Windows 95, XP, Windows 10, IOS, Ect... It also has Android, Chromium, Retropie, Pi Hole, Box 86, Steam, lots of extra apps! With Berry Boot, you can have multiple OS's! It has everything I want on my Pi!

[ocudagledam]

Haha, I remember installing Windows 10 IoT Core onto a Pi 3 (I think, if not earlier) just to miff a Linux loving coworker. :D The installation itself was a breeze, although I don't remember doing anything with it afterwards - it was all done to get the man's reaction. Good times! :D

[HikingFeral]

For the latest one it's more like the cost of several video games lol but I do really want one.

[skilgannon]

Cheers Dan, informative as always! Going to check out Volumio for my Pie 4. I too have a good few Pie's kicking about. One in an A600 case running Amiberry, one in my mini arcade machine, one running an LCD Scroller Matrix and another 3 kicking about doing nothing lol. Great wee machines!

[judgewest]

I tell you the OS to run on the Rasberry Pi starting next year, MacOS Big Sur

[BlUsKrEEm]

I wasn't aware there was a Basic based OS! That's awesome thanks for sharing! Brings me back to the C16

[MrGamer]

I have Ubuntu Mate running on my Rpi4 and so far it runs pretty good. At least for web browsing.

[CMOS-licp]

You missed Manjaro with full desktop with xfce or kde plasma also ubuntu server and you went over the option of using SSD either SATA or NVMe with a usb bridge now that RaspberryPi supports USB boot.