Laptop is being repaired for a couple weeks, so using my Raspberry Pi as a desktop for everything

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Any suggestions on the best all-rounder OS? Is Raspberry Pi OS still the better option?

Its been so long since I ran this. Pi4, 8gb for reference.

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A few years ago I had success running Ubuntu MATE on my pi (PI 2 Model B), all I did was writing, browsing and some emulation gaming but it ran pretty well.

heh, nice pic

This is either absolute approval of the power of a 486 (with turbo speed no less!), or some slight judgement over my Neon Genesis Evangelion obsession...

I'm fine with it either way!

Lucky you with that Pi4. I think the official OS will be the most comfortable for general desktop use. If possible, boot from SSD (never USB) because microSD cards can occasionally crap out.

What do your mean, never usb? How else can you connect a ssd?

Ah, I meant never boot from a USB flash drive. Obviously use the USB ports but SSD is the fastest, then microSD, then regular USB.

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought there might be a major issue using usb for booting a ssd. I have all these things available. I kinda want to give myself the raspberry pi desktop tool challenge.

Hmm.

Probably, since it is optimized for the rpi.

Seconded, also helps that the rpi-update and other utitilities for firmware updates/overclocking are already bundled and well supported.