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B. SchellComputing with the Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5293-2_3

3. The Raspberry Pi Desktop Tools

Brian Schell1 
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Flint, MA, USA
 

Your Raspberry Pi-based computer is now all assembled and working. Now what? It’s time to learn how to use the basic user interface. If you’ve ever used Windows or a Mac, you already know how the mouse and keyboard work, but the menus and controls in Raspbian are a little different. We’ll also spend some time explaining several different ways that software and apps can be installed, and this is significantly different from other operating systems, so you’ll absolutely need take a few notes here.

Using the Interface

Now that we have all the hardware set up, it’s time to look at software ...

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