Hi Tony

After listening to your episode I was inspired to try Raspbian X86 on an old Acer netbook which I use mainly as a media player. The Acer ran OK with Mint Xfce but was a bit slow to respond when opening and closing programs.

After a clean install of Raspbian X86 the netbook definitely runs a bit faster than with Mint. I've stripped out all the applications I don't need (i.e the programming, games and office components). Wi-fi worked out of the box and, unlike on your Lenovo, so did the audio.

Pixel will never win any prizes for sophistication but if you play around with the colours you can improve the default appearance somewhat. It certainly gets the job done.

