Raspberry PI configuration link dump

1. Installation - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/noobs.md
   http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/2013/06/noobs-for-raspberry-pi/
   
   
2. Impressive - The Raspberry Pi 3 boots up in 25 seconds to Desktop. 10 seconds to open Chromium browser. 25 seconds to load a google spreadsheet. Overall, faster than my AMD64 Windows XP laptop from 2009. :)
   
   
3. Older version of RPi (Pi2?) - good for playing local videos - was pleasantly surprised to find that I could just put in the same micro-SD card which was running Raspbian 9 into a SD-card adapter and put it into the older Pi, and it booted and ran fine - did not need any reinstall.
   
   
   It is good for playing local videos. It could play 2 windows with 2 instances of VLC running local copies of 360p videos without any problems - 35% CPU for each instance, MP4 and DIVX respectively. But it could not play videos reliably over the network. Also, web browser Chromium takes a very very long time to open, web pages crawl to load. Probably because of the low RAM.
   
   
   But I can use it as a video player, with a status message at the bottom or something like that.
   
   
4. Ubuntu 64 bit on the new Pi - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=220079
   

   sudo cp ~/Desktop/pi-bootloader/boot/* /mnt

   
   

   
   

   Instead, doing this - 

   https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/

   
   

   with the image at

   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/release/ubuntu-18.04.2-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi3.img.xz
   
   
5. Only xubuntu available for Pi - https://linuxconfig.org/install-ubuntu-16-04-mate-or-ubuntu-18-04-on-raspberry-pi#h7-1-ubuntu-server-unofficial
   
   
6. wifi driver installation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLS8d4Z09c
   lspci -vvnn | grep 802
   
   
   lsusb does not show it when driver is not installed.
   https://askubuntu.com/questions/246236/compile-and-install-rtl8192cu-driver
   
   
   https://askubuntu.com/questions/629522/rtl8188ce-step-by-step-guide
   
   https://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters
   
   
7. Cloning RPi with dd - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46911
   sudo fdisk -l
   sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sdc | gzip > /home/your_username/image`date +%d%m%y`.gz
   sudo gzip -dc /home/your_username/image.gz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdc
   
   
8. Enabling monitoring on RPi wifi - https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/36747/enable-monitoring-mode-for-rtl8188cus-via-usb-on-raspbian
   
   
9. How to loop in VLC - https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=78723 - and subtitles in vlc playlist maker.
   
   
10. Adjusting Overscan on the RPi - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2371/using-composite-video-can-t-see-everything-on-the-screen/16
    
    
11. Raspberry PI model comparison - http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/raspberrypi-models-comparison
    
    
12. Shortcut to edit text file -  Exec=leafpad %U /home/pi/file.txt