Finding the best operating system for a Raspberry Pi is difficult. The best we can do is just what it is designed for: choose depending on what we want do with her Now, if what we are looking for is a desktop operating system, the options are already fewer: Ubuntu gives good results (if used on an SSD or fast USB) and Manjaro too, but I think the best is, given that Twister OS is missing, Raspberry PiOS.
If asked for the reasons, I'd give a couple: DRM-protected content can be played without problems, and it's well-optimized. It is true that Canonical and other projects are improving their proposals release after release, but try to do some normal x86_64 stuff on an ARM device without some special patches and you'll tell me. Although the information about what this article is about is different from all this, more specifically that a new update from Raspberry Pi OS.
Raspberry Pi OS 2023-05-03 includes Chromium 113
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has made a release with some notable news. For example, the kernel has been upgraded from Linux 5.15 LTS to also LTS Linux 6.1. Among other things, this will improve performance on the famous Raspberry motherboard. If someone is wondering how it is possible that if it is based on Debian it is already on that kernel version, then tell them that this is common, and that, for example, Ubuntu is also based on Debian and the recently released Lunar Lobster use 6.2.
Among the rest of the news, Raspberry Pi OS 2023-05-03 arrives with Chromium 113 as default web browser, and as Chrome has switched to using WebGPU. For everything else, updates have come in the form of new packages, such as the most up-to-date VLC, Raspberry Pi Imager, RealVNC Viewer or libcamera.
For new installations, the new image it can be downloaded by clicking on the following button, although it can also be installed directly from the official Imager. As data, the 32bit version is still the default or main option.