Getting started
Learn to write SD cards. Then use your Raspberry Pi as a Linux desktop, a server or something entirely inconceivable.
T he first step with your Raspberry Pi is to write out an SD card with an operating system on it. The official Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is the best place to start. It has its own lightweight desktop, dubbed Pixel, and out of the box it can do most tasks you’d expect from a desktop. The Pi Foundation provides its own crossplatform
Rpi-Imager
tool for downloading and writing a selection of OSes (see www.raspberrypi.com/ software), but you can use anything you like including our favourite tool for the job,
Balena Etcher
(https://etcher.io).