Bookworm — the new version of Raspberry Pi OS - Raspberry Pi
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It's an odd-numbered year, so there is a new major Debian release, and we are now releasing the corresponding version of Raspberry Pi OS.
  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
    201·
    1 year ago

    I really hate the harsh colouring of the terminals in both RpiOS and windows, it makes them look so unwelcoming and dangerous, especially for beginners.

    I much prefer the colours on the KDE and GNOME terminals and wish more OSes implement them

        • Link@rentadrunk.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          I think the Pi 4 and Pi 5 could run it pretty well. Definitely would recommend it for older Pi models though.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          Plasma is one of the lowest resource utilization DEs available. Has been for years now. I get tired of hearing this from people that last used KDE at like version 4.

  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
    121·
    1 year ago

    Ah, shit… The only way to update is to reimage/reinstall… It’ll take a couple of days for me.

    • neo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t get it. You could have probably maintained a Debian Sarge install and upgraded it all the way through to Bookworm. I’m kind of surprised they don’t provide an upgrade path in place for Raspian when Debian can manage it.

      • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
        6·
        1 year ago

        “This time, because the changes to the underlying architecture are so significant, we are not suggesting any procedure for upgrading a Bullseye image to Bookworm; any attempt to do this will almost certainly end up with a non-booting desktop and data loss. The only way to get Bookworm is either to create an SD card using Raspberry Pi Imager, or to download and flash a Bookworm image from here with your tool of choice.”

        • craigevil@lemmy.ml
          6·
          1 year ago

          that is the same bs rpios says with every release. most likely they just don’t want the forum with a bunch of people having ods issues.

          I installed rpios on my pi400 three yrs ago then changed the Debian repos to Sid and updated. Been doing apt upgrade ever since with no problems.

  • tankplanker@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I did an in place upgrade to testing about a month ago on my PIs after running Bookworm on x86 VMs since it came out. Worked fine for me but my usage is pretty light compared to some as they are headless servers for me and I can rebuild really quickly if I had needed to from backups.

    Today I had a shed load of updates per PI, about 160 packages so I guessed it had gone live.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Based on Debian. I’m a bit confused though because I’ve been running a Bookworm-based version of the Raspberry Pi OS for some time (I switched from Bullseye maybe a year ago) because I thought that was the current version. Is this a second Bookworm-based release, or did I inadvertently jump the gun and run something that was pre-release until now? The Pis did receive some kind of big distribution upgrade this week, but it was from Bookworm to Bookworm.

      • Heratiki@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Yeah this is some bonkers mental leaps people are making. It’s not like RPiOS is telling Microsoft anything you’re doing. It’s out there for installing and maintaining Visual Code much more easily.

    • sederx@programming.dev
      514·
      1 year ago

      Not sure why people downvoted this. It’s true and it’s fucked up.

      Luckily I never used their os.