It’s a 30-day challenge, where you learn one new thing every day until you become a Raspberry Pi expert. If you are looking to quickly progress on Raspberry Pi, you can check out my e-book here. Read on to discover how to configure and install Debian with a desktop environment! There is no graphical desktop on the Raspberry Pi Debian image, to begin with, but one can be added. Debian does require more configuration than many other systems. Download the Raspberry Pi image from Debian’s website, flash it to an SD card, boot the Pi, and configure it. Now that I have more experience, and Debian has a Raspberry Pi version available, I will try it again and will share my experience with you. However it wasn’t as beginner-friendly as other distributions, so I didn’t spend much time with it.

When I first got started in Linux, I tried it out because it was a key distribution. It forms the basis of Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, and many others. Debian is one of four main versions of Linux and has been around since 1993.

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