Yet Another Linux Box

I'd been thinking about getting a Raspberry Pi 5 but when the Amazon Prime
Days had a bargain on the CanaKit I pulled the trigger. It's a little
smaller than I realized. The whole case with the Pi and a fan is the size
of a double deck of cards. The kit comes with the case, power supply, two
microHDMI cables, and a microSD preloaded with Raspberry Pi OS. The only
additional item I ordered was a female to female standard HDMI connector
to work with my KVM setup. Not bad for $135.

I put it together, fired it up and went through the usual language,
location, and wifi setup. As usual the first thing it did was updates. I
installed the pico SDK and VS Code with the Pico extension.  It does come
with Thonny which is a Python IDE. It's easy to use fo MicroPython  on the
Pico but I prefer Code with the Python extensions.

It's derived from Debian so it's the usual 'sudo apt'  process. The
desktop is a LXDE derivative, not too different from xcce. It comes with
Chrome and Firefox; you choose the default during the setup.

The whole setup was pretty painless so now I have an ARM Linux machine. I
mainly plan to use it with the Picos since it has the I/O pins needed for
debugging. Otherwise you need two Picos with one set up as a debugger.
There are many projects with the standalone Pi since the Header breaks out
the GPIO, SCI, PWM, and UART pins.