Raspberry Pi Archives

Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC

This is a series of articles on the Raspberry Pi 5 focusing on using this single board computer as a desktop PC.

Explore my favourite ways of installing new software on the Raspberry Pi 5.

PiGro is a free and open source system configuration tool that streamlines managing your Raspberry Pi settings from one convenient location.

raspi-config is a script that offers an easy way to start configuring the Raspberry Pi 5.

I rerun some benchmarks, this time comparing an overclocked Raspberry Pi 5 to an Intel N100 Mini PC.

What’s the rationale of benchmarking the Pi 5 against an N100? Simple! This series is looking at using the Pi 5 as a desktop machine.

Passively cool the Raspberry Pi 5 the right way. Use the case as a heatsink. No fan noise to interrupt your concentration.

Installing a script to enable ZRAM and optimize its effectiveness on Raspberry Pi computers. It’s very useful for low RAM Pi models.

Photobooth is software is intended to run on a Raspberry Pi 2 and upwards, but it can run on any Linux PC.

In this article I explain how to increase the swap file. This helps performance on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of RAM or less.