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from the something-to-try-while-digesting-your-turkey dept.
In a rather curious turn, the Raspberry Pi foundation has released an x86 PC port of its PIXEL+Debian Linux desktop environment.
PIXEL (which is a clunky backronym for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight) is an extensively modified version of the LXDE X11 desktop environment. It was originally released in September for use with Raspberry Pi single-board computers, but now it has also been packaged up for x86 PCs. You can boot your Windows or Mac PC into the PIXEL desktop environment right now, if you so wish.
In the words of Eben Upton, founder of the foundation, PIXEL is "our best guess as to what the majority of users are looking for in a desktop environment [...] Put simply, it's the GNU/Linux we would want to use." To that end, PIXEL is both clean and modern-looking, but more importantly it is useful, with a wide range of productivity software and programming tools pre-installed. PIXEL doesn't eschew proprietary software, either; it even comes with the Adobe Flash browser plug-in.
Can any PIXEL users comment?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @02:24PM
From what you describe, I'm assuming this is because there isn't a Guest Additions package for it in VirtualBox. All the linux distros behave the way you say before you install the appropriate Guest Addition.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 27 2016, @08:03PM
To add to that, some distros have partial or full guest addition drivers in the kernel by default.