The folks over at LoveRPi announced their customized Raspbian Desktop images for Raspberry Pi boards. This release is based on the 2018-11-13 release of Raspbian Desktop Full with our modifications to improve performance and stability.
Modifications:
- Larger FAT32 partition starting at standard 1MB offset
- BTRFS root filesystem with compression, checksumming, and metadata duplication
- Automatic kernel initrd generation and pruning on upgrade (apt-get and rpi-update)
- Automatic filesystem resize to disk size without reboot
- Automatic swap partition generation on first start
- Disable overscan by default
- Rotate LCD for correct orientation on Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Display
- Change radio frequency support, locale, and timezone to US
- Include touchscreen keyboard and vim by default
- Remove unnecessary piwiz autostart
- Reduced image size by 1GB for faster flashing
- Desktop link assets for quick reference (removable)
Supported Boards:
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
- Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
- Raspberry Pi Model B
- Raspberry Pi Zero W
- Raspberry Pi Zero
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://share.loverpi.com/board/raspberry-pi/raspbian/2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-desktop-loverpi.zip
FILENAME: 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-desktop-loverpi.zip
SHA512SUM: 7dcd6402e52fd3981d150185368bde018c46963d629f93fe6059b71ef033066a5ddcc95589e32033769722c40df7dcd0b9456c54d8704949698c5603c5b211c5
Lite image available here.