Last Updated on February 10, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
U-labs concluded that DietPi it better than Raspberry Pi OS
But bls from Seattle, WA contradicts in the Raspberry Pi forum:
“Many people have written about DietPi, but I’ve never spent much time looking at it. I checked out the website today, and discovered that it’s built on Debian. Guess what? RasPiOS is also built on Debian, which means they are quite similar, except (at a high level) for installation and management.
I didn’t review the website in detail, but from my perhaps jaded perspective, I don’t see much difference between DietPi and RasPiOS Lite other than DP supports a much broader range of hardware, which is great if you have one or more of those non-RaspberryPi boards.
But for the RaspberryPi, it seems to me that one would be better served running RasPiOS, which is from the same team that builds the hardware. The only exception I’d suggest is if you have a fleet of non-Pi boards and throw a Pi-board in there. DP makes sense for consistency in this scenario, assuming that it has the bits and pieces you need.
I’m not trying to unfairly denigrate DP. My observations and opinions are based on nearly 50 years of working on a broad range of computers and OS, and are worth exactly what you paid for them “