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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, 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 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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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The fact it took you that long to set up either OS tells us you’re definitely the problem here.

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MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Which additional software in all did you install after boot though?
  
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  - MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
    
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    Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just single-booted mine, so no Windows partition, but I use my laptop for video editing, graphic design, and a bunch of other tasks, so I have to install a range of other software and productivity apps like Autokey, Flameshot, image resizer, fancy file nenamer, Figma, rustdesk, bitwarden, and like at least 20 others. Not all of these went easy, especially since there are some Linux software that runs on debian based systems using .deb files, and others that aren’t designed for use with Mint at all, so it’s hard or impossible to get these going.
    
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