Tonight's project was simple. I wanted to connect remotely to the Pi from my laptop, just to ensure that I'm able to set it up correctly. I turned on the Pi and waited a couple minutes, then used Putty to SSH into the computer. That worked without any issues.
The next step was to get the VNC server running. The command for this was vncserver :0 -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24. I also ran it using vncserver :0 -geometry 1280x720 -depth 24. I don't know what resolution I prefer better. Logging in from the laptop using VNC also had no issues, so that's that. I'm able to run both the command line and X11 remotely. This was much easier than I thought it would be.
Since that was so quick, I decided I would play around a little bit. I looked for a game to play using sudo apt-cache search game and downloaded a game called "Pathological" using sudo apt-get install pathological. I played for about 15 minutes and stopped. It's not that the game was boring or that difficult (at least in the first several levels), I just wanted to get on to do something else. Now that I know this works, I'm going to move the Pi over to my office and connect up the ribbon cable to the bread board and play with some LEDs. But I'll do that another night.
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