In December 2016 I was interested to see the announcement of a version of Raspbian PIXEL intended to run on a PC.
I dont want to run a GUI on RPi generally as the tasks I RPi to carry out are based on command-line processing and I prefer to run RPi headless with little software installed. However using an old laptop to run Raspbian is a very attractive idea. I can run GNU/linux GUI using the same underlying Debian flavour of Linux and remain within the RPi world.
Initially the software was only distributed as a live DVD image, so you could boot an image but not install it over the existing system on a laptop. Development has moved forward and sometime this year an installable image was released. I noticed it last week and have now installed it on Alex's very old notebook (Hi-Grade M72R 2009 or earlier). The audio jack doesn't work and the battery is completely dead but that shouldn't be too inconvenient.
I am very happy with the result. We have the chromium browser and a basic set of applications available to us and responses are very reasonable. I had to think a little to get wifi and bluetooth working but now that they are I should be able to do anything I want with it.
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