I wanted to set up the pi as a wifi repeater. This sort of thing required lots of reboots. Took way too long to setup. I think the way it should work is they

I wanted to set up the pi as a wifi repeater. This sort of thing required lots of reboots. Took way too long to setup. I think the way it should work is they need an emulator that runs on a desktop machine. Just like iOS & Android development. You get your setup working on the desktop & then deploy to device. I guess the main problem with this is that often you want to try hardware that only works on the pi. Not sure what the solution is there. Maybe soon these $5 computers will be screaming fast with fast SSD as well, will reboot in a few seconds, and so no problems.