• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Recently I installed Linux mint on my laptop, and then my main PC died so I replaced it with windows 11. I’ve had the unique experience of setting them both up from scratch alongside each other.

    Windows 11 took longer to set up (4 days), but was 80% via GUI, and the 20% I did in PowerShell was mostly using winget with very few failures. I used ChatGPT for some planning and checklist and also used it to craft a PowerShell script that would silently install about 35 applications that I was too lazy to do manually by downloading the exe’s, but I could have gotten there without it.

    Mint took 2 days to set up but was 80% terminal, and I would not have been able to install half the things I wanted without the help of ChatGPT crafting baffling workarounds for me that I would not have found on my own.

    In the end, both systems are 95% how I want them, with 5% unattainable due to their own unique issues.

    I’ll continue to use both for now, and see how I go in a year or so.

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      4 days ago

      I got mint up and running with zero terminal input. It was so slick. Idk what you did, but maybe just try booting mint up yourself and leave chat gp out of it.

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          4 days ago

          Real basic. Steam, VLC, and a torrent client. Setting up a VPN was probably the toughest part. But even that was easy.

          I think a lot of people get into trouble trying to do a partition, which windows will try to hunt down and breach. In the name of security capitalism.