Raspberry Pi Installation Help?

[gkusiak]

I'm not sure if it's correct or not, but this has been working for >1yr for me:

I just DL the latest RasPi4 .gz from sourceforge and have etcher flash it to my SD card. I do that on my desktop *buntu machine - it unpacks the zip, flashes the card.
Install the SD in the Pi, power it up..good to go - etcher can apparently flash from an URL now too, which is a little cool

there's rufus (for windows if that's your OS) to flash the image to SD...can't remember if you have to unzip it first...

my Pi is hardwired to my network - GigE works much better than wireless...
v19's stability has increased dramatically - it used to crash on me a couple of times per evening. now if it crashes once, it's a surprise and opportunity to visit the bathroom and/or refresh my mug of tea