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First time trying out the Raspberry PI OS

I felt like I was using Puppy Linux.

The First time the desktop displayed, a lot of what I was seeing, was very similar to the standard Puppy Linux desktop.
Taskbar and tray at top of desktop.

Left side:
Menu icon
Browser icon
File manager icon
Terminal icon

Middle area:
icon for any open programs

Right side:
Icon for Bluetooth
Icon for Network connection (icon changes with type connection)
Speaker icon for sound
Digital clock

All icons, on right side, have drop down option menus.

On the desktop:
A trash icon
If a external drive is connected, there will be a drive icon for it.
Click on drive icon to open file manager showing contents of drive.

So, I felt at home!

Clicking on the menu icon brings up the normal list of menu sections with subsections.
But they do seem not as well divided up as Puppies menu.

A lot of the programs in the Raspberry PI OS are the same ones you find in Puppy Linux.

Overall, it seems like a usable OS

@bigpup So were you running it live or was it on a PI? I remember trying a couple of the PI os on an old pII laptop several years ago.

I have heard that some can be run in Virtual box, have not tried that myself. Almost bought a PI kit last year to see what kinds of fun things I could create

@peppyy Raspberry Pi OS runs on what it's exact named after: on a Raspberry Pi. Plus, if I remember correctly, he got a RPi 400 recently. Yay for the comeback of the keyboard form factor desktop.

Anyway, unless if bigpup is running RaspPiOS on a virtual machine, which I wouldn't really recommend, he would running it on a the RPi 400 he just got. Most likely because Raspup has yet to have an update that fixes some overlooked problems (i.e. missing files for maximum compatibility with RPi 4 and 400 as well).

Anyway, if I'm being rude about this, let me know. Just trying to help and stuff.