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Many Debian-based Linux distributions can be used on a Raspberry Pi. Most of the differences between these are solely in the desktop environment, not the Linux kernel, so if your Pi is being used as a server, or command line only, there's little benefit in an alternative to the "standard". In other words, what are often called "operating systems" are actually all using the Linux operating system and only differing in their desktop environment (window manager).
Many Debian-based Linux distributions like Ubuntu can be used on a Raspberry Pi. Most of the differences between these
are in the desktop environment, not the Linux kernel, so if your Pi is being used as a server, or command line only, there's little benefit in an alternative to the "standard".
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* [Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version|https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=275370#p1668160]
* [https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/]
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The latter is a link to the directory containing RPi OS image files (i.e., not pictures but single-file copies of operating systems), the latest as of this writing is 2020-08-24.
!! Removing the UI
%%warning
Removing the UI is a rather permanent thing. Once you've done so, restoring your Pi back to being able to use the desktop again
very difficult, i.e., reversing the purge of UI libraries. So unless you're hurting for disk space on your SD card you might wish to just leave the UI files alone. One thing I ''have'' noticed is that if your WiFi gets messed up, it's easier to fix it using the UI than via raspi-config.
%%
If you never need the UI and plan to run command line only, type this:
{{{
sudo apt remove --purge x11-common
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt update
}}}
This removes all x11 packages, then the 'autoremove' does the cleanup of packages that are no longer needed. Then updates what's left of your operating system.
This will empty up some disk space and speed up operating system updates as there's less on your Pi. As a measure of this,
here's the stats on a clean new 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS, before and after removing the UI:
__Before:__
{{{
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.0G 3.8G 2.9G 58% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 31M 222M 13% /boot
}}}
__After:__
{{{
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.0G 3.3G 3.5G 49% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 31M 222M 13% /boot
}}}
So this cleared about half a gigabyte of space.
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