What we do know are the last steps.
So after this everything will be fully configured.
So we got access to the Raspberry Pi desktop with VNC.
And we're just going to do a few things here.
Get used to the desktop, check a few options okay do some updates, etc..
So first of all here to go full screen I click.
If I click on F8 I should be able to get this menu okay.
And you can click on full screen.
And so if I click on F8 again so I need to click on the desktop F8 I can go back to the previous mode
okay.
You also have the options.
So this is the options of Tigervnc okay.
It's not a Raspberry Pi, it's about Tigervnc.
Um, but uh, different options for encoding.
If you have weird colors here, you might select for example, Tight or Exile where it doesn't really
matter, but if you have weird colors, you might change the encoding here.
Apart from that, I would not really change anything.
So what do we have on this desktop?
Well, we have a menu bar on top.
So if you are used to windows the menu bar is at the bottom.
It's basically the same thing.
And the first thing I'm going to do.
So I'm going to click on this launch menu and go to Preferences and Appearance Settings okay.
So this is optional I'm just doing this so that when I do the course you can easily read and see what
I'm doing.
So if I go on taskbar I can choose the size okay.
And I'm going to go from large to very large.
You can see it's bigger.
So you don't need to do that, but it's going to be easier for you to read on my screen when I record
the course.
Okay.
And I can also put the menu on the bottom if I want.
I'm going to leave it at the top.
Now, if I go on system, I'm also going to increase the font size from 12 to, I don't know, something
like 15.
I might increase it a bit later?
Face.
It's not enough.
Okay, so with this, the text is bigger and you can try a dark theme etc..
Okay, so I click on okay.
And now well the important thing to check.
You can go back to the menu here Preferences and Raspberry Pi configuration.
And here you can see you have the password.
So if you want to change the password you can do it here.
You can change the hostname.
Make sure that well the boot option is to desktop.
So make sure to keep that you can enable disable the auto login etc..
If I go on interfaces you can see we have the VNC server that's enabled.
So don't disable it.
And you have other stuff here.
So SSH is enabled as well.
And then well on localization you can also change the locale if needed.
Time zone keyboard.
So you have all the options here in this Raspberry Pi configuration menu.
Then what we can check is you see we have the Wi-Fi here.
So this is your Wi-Fi network.
This is the one I have chosen okay.
You can even see the IP address.
We have the Bluetooth that's enabled by default.
I guess I can turn it off.
Okay.
Since we don't need it for now.
And then that's pretty much it.
So one thing we're going to do is to update the software.
So here on the top you can see we have these updates are available.
Click to install box.
And you can see the updates.
But you can just install the updates.
Okay.
And this is going to take a few minutes so you can wait.
Now you might think why do we need to update the system if we just installed it.
Well you installed a version that was kind of frozen at some point.
And since this point, there's been new versions for the software that you already have in the Raspberry
Pi OS.
So by doing this, you make sure that everything is up to date, okay.
And I recommend that as soon as you see that updates are available, you update your system again.
So let's just wait for a few minutes.
All right.
And in the end you will see this system is up to date.
So for me, in this case it took about well, something like 15 minutes.
So that's still quite long.
It's not going to be 15 minutes every time.
Basically the first time might be long.
And then if you wait for a few weeks or few months and you don't update your system, of course there's
going to be more packages to update.
So if you do it quite frequently, it's going to be quite quick.
And when you have this, you can just click on okay.
And that's basically it.
Your Raspberry Pi OS is correctly configured.
And now before we continue I actually need to show you something that's well, quite important is how
to shut down your Raspberry Pi properly because you might think, well, you just need to remove the
power cable.
And that's what we did once during the setup to find the IP address.
Okay, it's not ideal, but sometimes you need to do it.
But if you have access to the Raspberry Pi desktop like this, well, you should definitely shut it
down like you would shut down a normal computer.
You have a menu here and you click on shutdown.
You can shut down or reboot.
You click on shutdown and you can see then you will lose.
Of course, the VNC connection.
And that's normal because if you shut down, then the VNC server is turned off and you lose the VNC
connection.
Okay.
So I recommend that you always shut down your Raspberry Pi properly, simply because, well, imagine
another computer, you don't remove the battery of the computer, or you don't just unplug it from the
wall, you shut down your computer properly.
I mean, I hope you do.
So.
Same thing for the Raspberry Pi as much as possible, try to shut it down correctly and then once you
shut it down, you can remove the power cable.
Okay, so wait maybe a few seconds 10s after you shut it down.
And if you want to start it again, you just need to power it on again.
So I just did that.
I put it on again.
You wait for maybe 20 or 30s and after you've waited a bit you can connect.
So just click on Yes.
Okay.
It's going to ask us to put the username and password again.
Okay.
And we are back to the Raspberry Pi.
Great.
So now you have successfully installed Raspberry Pi operating system.
You are ready to go to the next step, which is to start to do some programming with Python on the Raspberry
Pi.
So at this point, the important thing is that the configuration is working properly.
If you don't understand all the steps, especially the command line tools, don't worry too much.
This is really not a problem because we are going to come back to this a little bit later.
Okay, that's a bit more advanced.
I'm making the course very easy at the beginning, and we will go step by step to the more difficult
topics.
What I encourage you to do now is just to play around and see what's inside the Raspberry Pi.
You can open a web browser, okay, see the different settings, etc. I have added a few extra videos
after this one on this section and you can check them or not, but you could directly jump to the Python
section on the Raspberry Pi.