Updated 2024-03-02 !
I like the Raspberry Pi(RPi), with Raspberry Pi OS Lite (no Desktop is included), headless operation, and then adding the software You need. Until now I haven't had a use case where I needed a Desktop but now was time.
Why don't use the Raspberry Pi OS with Desktop ?? In that package there
is a lot of software I don't need and I really want to optimize the RPi. I
think that the less software You install the happier RPi will be...
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