My Raspberry Pi works!

All for about $60 plus shipping, and because I already had a keyboard/mouse and HDMI monitor, I have a newly functioning computer. The Raspbian OS includes everything I need, web browser, Scratch, text editor, and a few other things I’m looking forward to exploring.

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B w/wireless.

I hadn’t used Linux for a long time – It was very easy to set up the default graphical OS.

Yes! I was pretty happy to see that…

With ethernet, before I set up WiFi.

It’s a good idea to go through the config tool carefully. Be sure to change your keyboard layout from gb to us.

I really didn’t have any problems – a little bit of trouble getting wifi to connect to my wireless router, but it caught another one just fine.

Peter Oakes’s start-up guide was really helpful: