RaspiBlitz

RaspiBlitz is the community classic: menu-driven setup on stock hardware, MIT-licensed to the bone, and endlessly hackable — the node distro that taught a generation of Lightning node-runners what was under the hood. Development is genuinely communal rather than corporate.

It suits tinkerers who want to understand their stack and modify it freely. It assumes more comfort with terminals than the polished OSes — which its audience considers the feature that keeps the knowledge alive.