Like so many distributions, Raspberry Pi OS seeks to use a lot of Debian's stuff while offering more and sheltering users from the less pleasant parts of the De

Like so many distributions, Raspberry Pi OS seeks to use a lot of Debian's stuff while offering more and sheltering users from the less pleasant parts of the Debian user experience. It was not even close to being the first distro to take this approach. (as someone else alluded to, Debian abandoned the specific ARM chip architecture the original Raspberry Pi used shortly before the board came out, since it was not popular enough to maintain. I have no idea whether they brought it back.)