Don't over think the problem

So, this is true to the thread (totally off-topic) and just here as a confession/learning moment since the ultimate moral (see post title) applies to 3D printing as well

I needed to run some Raspberry Pi windows on a Windows PC.
What I needed (and have done before, just to make this worse) was Cygwin on the PC (an X-Windows server) and ... nothing else. Start Cygwin, telnet to Pi, set DISPLAY variable and run stuff.

What happened was my son came in telling me we needed to 'emulate' the Pi on Windows. (Not what we needed at all).

So I go off down the path of virtualizing the ARM on Windows. You can do this (qemu if you feel masochistic) so off I go installing the emaulator, the image, the boot kernel and updating the crap out of stuff.

3 hours later I have it working. It is neat (no Xhost needed) but without that 5 minutes later I could have been running the crap on my PC display.

So, DON'T OVER THINK THE PROBLEM.

Occams razor. Every stinkin' time.

 

Don't go FULL NERD if it ain't needed.