RASPBERRY PI

FirstEverDocument.odt

Initializing a Raspberry Pi5 on 2024–02–06

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Step away from Windows OS

This is the first document to be created on LibreOffice Writer on this Raspberry Pi 5. I didn’t realize that I was installing less than a full system when I initialized the SSD. I had to use apt-get to install it. I guess I could start all over with the system, or maybe do an update from the SDHC card. I think I’ll just work on getting better with Linux instead. The command-line interface is what I started out with so long ago on DOS, you’d think I’d prefer it.

There’s some reason I wanted to do word processing, but I’ll be damned if I can recall what it was two hours ago when I started this journey.

This is kind of the grand experiment in miniature non-Windows computing. The Raspberry Pi5 booting from a 500 GB SSD, running on 5V from a 27W supply, connected to the 32” Vizio HDMI TV screen in the travel trailer. Internet is provided by using my tablet’s phone data to provide a Hotspot when I need to connect. The keyboard is an annoyingly small thing with a touch-pad integrated on the right side, that I keep touching accidentally, putting the mouse in some inconvenient place on the screen. I have to crowd my fingers together to touch type, and it yields a lot of mistakes…