Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.

The Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 is a significant new version of the best and easiest tool for creating boot media for any Raspberry Pi from the Zero upward. Two years ago, when we introduced Raspberry Pi OS 5 , we also showed you a couple of screenshots of the improved Pi Imager application. Now it's been streamlined and simplified.

What flavor of Pi would you like to start with?

The Raspberry Pi Imager is the quickest way to create a fresh SD card. It's rather more capable than a generic image writer like the handy Balena Etcher . The Imager also offers a menu letting you choose the OS you

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