Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait

Raspberry Pi Desktop has returned after four years, skipping Debian 12 to deliver a new version based on Debian 13 "Trixie." The updated release brings the familiar Pi desktop to PCs and Intel Macs, and could be worth a look if you want a simple, lightweight Linux to revive an older machine. Raspberry Pi's main business is making and selling its relatively inexpensive Arm single-board computers. This isn't its only activity, though: as well as hardware, it also maintains its own custom Debian-based distro. Although we've covered a few alternative Pi distros over the years, we suspect that most Pi owners never try anything other than the official Pi OS. Pi OS is Debian, but heavily cut down so that it doesn't use much memory or disk space. Its custom desktop grew out of LXDE and was initially presented as PIXEL. …