I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi 400 for my in-laws. Having gifted them many a hand-me-down laptop over the years, I was immediately struck by the

Installing Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 400 from Windows 10

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I recently picked up a Raspberry Pi 400 for my in-laws. Having gifted them many a hand-me-down laptop over the years, I was immediately struck by the simplicity of the new offering from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and at $140 CAD, the price point couldn’t be beat.

When the Pi arrived, I continued to be impressed by the packaging. The box contains everything that you need to get started (aside from a wall outlet and an external monitor with an HDMI input), and apart from the included mouse, all components feel well made and are pleasant to use.

Setup was simple – just plug in the power cable, the monitor, and the mouse, and the machine comes to life. Like previous iterations of the Pi, the machine boots from an SD card, and it doesn’t have a hardware power switch, so it turns on just as soon as power is connected.

The SD card comes inserted into the Pi, and is flashed with Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster). On first boot, it asks for some locale information and prompts you to change the password for the default pi account, after which it downloads and installs updates.

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