This is the first article in a series exploring the Raspberry Pi 5 used as a desktop Mini PC. Let’s kick off the series by seeing how the machine fares as a music player. Linux offers a wide array of
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC?
A question I get asked a fair bit is whether the Raspberry Pi 5 represents good value to purchase as a desktop PC.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Improve Wi-Fi
Let’s try to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s Wi-Fi performance (transfer speed and latency) with a USB 3.0 adapter from BrosTrend.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: 2.5Gbps Networking
In this article I explore a simple upgrade to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s network speed.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Ollama GUI
Did you know that even a Raspberry Pi 5 is able to run LLMs locally? Even better, the developer of Pi-Apps has produced an optimized install script which makes it Raspberry Pi 5 friendly.
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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.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Installing Software
Explore my favourite ways of installing new software on the Raspberry Pi 5.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: PiGro – system configuration tool
PiGro is a free and open source system configuration tool that streamlines managing your Raspberry Pi settings from one convenient location.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: raspi-config
raspi-config is a script that offers an easy way to start configuring the Raspberry Pi 5.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Overclocking
I rerun some benchmarks, this time comparing an overclocked Raspberry Pi 5 to an Intel N100 Mini PC.
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