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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by spookie on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:39PM (#44870713)
Honestly less time consuming to just install some GNU/Linux distro.
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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by p_ing on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:46PM (#44872180)
Install, maybe. Configure? Maybe not.
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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by graemep on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @06:10AM (#44874404)
Linux tends to tempt people to spend time configuring it, but most of that is customisation to taste that Windows users very rarely do.

You can just skip it and use everything with the distro defaults. it many even be less work than Windows as a lot more software is installed by default on installation.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by p_ing on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @09:40AM (#44876083)
I used to configure Windows, now I don't bother. But with Linux, I do because I must. Many OOTB defaults just aren't great, or some part of it requires configuration.

LoD is _fine_ but not great.

(Slackware 4.0 was great)

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