YES,
Many have started with Full Raspbian (Raspberry Pi OS with Desktop)
Yes, you will be able to reconnect to your existing Piaware identifier
Please brows following thread
Re-imaging Made Easy
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STEP-2: Write image to microSD Card
NOTE: Following item of OPTION-2 [Package Install] is outdated:
6.2 - Configure dump1090-fa & dump978-fa to use dongles of assigned serial numbers
Instead, use following commands:
sudo sed -i 's/^RECEIVER_SERIAL=.*/RECEIVER_SERIAL=00001090/' /etc/default/dump1090-fa
sudo sed -i 's/driver=rtlsdr[^ ]* /driver=rtlsdr,serial=00000978 /' /etc/default/dump978-fa
Enable VNC through SSH / PuTTY
sudo raspi-config
