Next, click on the icon showing an image of a CD/DVD tray, which is about three quarters of the way down the box, next to ‘Create a bootable disk using’, and select the Raspbian ISO file you just downloaded. In Rufus, click on the dropdown menu for Device to select the USB stick. Take a USB stick, with a size of 2GB or larger and run the downloaded Rufus.On Windows a good program for creating a bootable USB stick is called Rufus, which is downloaded from here.

Next you’ll need to create a bootable USB stick.This can be downloaded from here or as a torrent from here. First, download the ISO, the image of the Raspbian OS that you will install.Here’s how to install and setup Raspbian on PC (with an accompanying video guide above): Trying out Raspbian on a PC is remarkable straightforward, with the Raspberry Pi Foundation releasing an installer that can be booted from a USB stick. Even if you’ve limited interest in the Pi, Raspbian could breathe life into an ancient laptop, with the system working well on computers with just 512MB of RAM and Intel’s ageing, budget CPU, the Intel Celeron-M.

Those who want to try Raspbian but don’t have a Raspberry Pi can now install the OS on a typical PC, any computer with an x86 processor. The OS bundles web browsing, office and programming software and was overhauled to make it simpler to use and more attractive, with the introduction of the PIXEL desktop. Raspbian is the official OS for the Raspberry Pi, based on the Linux-OS Debian, and has been repeatedly updated since 2012.

If you want a taste of the Raspberry Pi or simply a lightweight operating system that’ll run on an old computer, then why not try out Raspbian.

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