• tsugu@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    How the fuck. I seriously want to know. My W11 IoT installed under half an hour.

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      1 month ago

      Did you also get most of the extra software installed at the same time or did you need to spend extra time getting all your non-OS software installed to make your computer actually useful?

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        1 month ago

        Windows itself was installed during that time. Additional software installation took a few minutes. I installed stuff when I needed it thorough the day.

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          1 month ago

          So nothing to really make Windows actually useful on reboot. In nearly the same amount of time with a Linux distro, you get a system that may well not need anything extra to be productive with on 1rst reboot.

          (And yes, I have installed both OS systems from scratch dating back to dos).

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            1 month ago

            I need to install all of my apps under Linux as well. Doesn’t make much of a difference. I don’t like the default browser, media player, torrent client, office suite, etc. that Mint ships with for example.

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              So it’s a matter of personal choices rather than one of necessity. To be honest I do the same with some of the software that Fedora installs, (I don’t need a suite like OpenOffice-- Abbiword and gnumeric are all I really need anymore), and some very specialized programs I use that most people have no need of. But none that has little to do with not having productive and usable software populating your first time boot.