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--- blog:articles:raspberry:rpi5desktop [2024/07/30 10:56] – [Testing] Phil Ide
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 It's more complicated than that, but that's the essential stuff. On Windows and Mac systems, you get one desktop and although you can personalise it a bit, you're stuck with the one desktop.
-On Linux and other unix-style operating systems, the windowing system is either X11 or Wayland, but there are dozens of different desktops. All my Linux Mint systems use Cinnamon, but the RPI5 uses PIXEL, which is based on LXDE. I changed the desktop to use the Cinnamon desktop and rebooted - and voila! It doesn't look exactly the same as my other, more powerful machines, but it's close enough.
+On Linux and other unix-style operating systems, the windowing system is either X11 or Wayland, but there are dozens of different desktops. All my Linux Mint systems use Cinnamon, but the RPI5 uses (by default) PIXEL, which is based on LXDE. I changed the desktop to use the Cinnamon desktop and rebooted - and voila! It doesn't look exactly the same as my other, more powerful machines, but it's close enough.
 Cinnamon is very configurable, but out of the box it looks very familiar to anyone coming from a Windows machine.
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 Because the RPi5 doesn't (yet) come in a model with 1 or 2Gb of memory, it doesn't come cheap, but it is still a lot cheaper than most of other computers with similar capabilities. It also has the same usage patterns as the previous RPi models, so it can be used in AI, Machine learning, robotics, learning electronics, programming, scientific research networking and teaching the basics of //Office Suite Software// (word-processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation).
-Raspberry Pi SOCs (system on a chip) SBC (single board computers) have been a delight in their intended market - schools - where affordable (and easily and cheaply replaceable) requirements are a must, and have been taken up by hobbyists for all sorts of unusual and interesting projects. The RPi5 is a powerful addition to the stable, and I am very happy that it is powerful enough to o some serious development work on.
+Raspberry Pi SOCs (system on a chip) SBC (single board computers) have been a delight in their intended market - schools - where affordable (and easily and cheaply replaceable) requirements are a must, and have been taken up by hobbyists for all sorts of unusual and interesting projects. The RPi5 is a powerful addition to the stable, and I am very happy that it is powerful enough to do some serious development work on.
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