The long-awaited PC and Mac version of Raspberry Pi Desktop is updated and available now! Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac. We’re really sorry you had to wait so long… Here, at last, is the fully updated Debian Trixie with Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac.
Download it from our website now to give your other computers a Raspberry Pi makeover. We’ve even included a Raspberry Pi Connect client. Raspberry Pi Desktop installed on a 2020 Dell XPS laptop Back in 2016, I’d just finished the initial set of changes to make the default LXDE desktop into something Raspberry Pi-specific.
(I’d wanted to call it PIXEL, an acronym for Pi XWindows Environment Lightweight I’d come up with a couple of years earlier, but a certain other tech company had claimed the word by then, so it was sadly not to be…). As I was fiddling with it, our CEO Eben Upton walked past my desk and suggested, “wouldn’t it be cool if I could run this on my Mac…?” Side quest A couple of weekends later, I was a bit bored at home, and, knowing that it was possible to boot a Mac into Debian, I wondered just how hard it could be to add our desktop to a stock Debian image. A few hours later, I was sitting there with my Mac booted from a USB stick, with the Raspberry Pi desktop running pretty much in its entirety.
On Monday, I wandered over to Eben carrying my MacBook and said, “you might want to see this…” So I’d proved it was possible, but there is a long way to go from a hacked-together weekend experiment to something that you can actually let people use.
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