I swapped the SD cards between the two Pi’s. Since then I’ve been installing the stuff I need. I now have X and Pixel. I put on Python and some utilities. I added Pingus, because reasons. I’ve downloaded everything I need to get OpenCVing. Everything except finished compiling. Dear Lord, this is taking my soul.
Oh well, make is showing 68%, and while I’m sure those are rough numbers, at least it’s some progress. Me thinks I should have just cross compiled. I think on the long term, I’m doing the right thing, but still, it’s taking forever. Now if I wanted efficiency, I’d be compiling all of the above on my desktop as well so I could get done practice on the coding end.
I should be doing that, shouldn’t I. It will also give me a chance to poke at the different IDEs out there. While I used to do everything in notepad, I’ve now gotten much more wanting a clean editor. IDEs aren’t really necessary for me, at least at this point, but having syntax highlighting is just so nice. It feels lazy, but having my tabs handled cleanly, having parenthesis matching, having code completion… it’s lazy. But lazy feels so nice.