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Ask HN: How do you speed up new laptop setup?
I'm thinking of getting a new machine in the near future but don't want to spend a year setting it up. I've seen people using a repo for their dotfiles (https://github.com/justin8/dotfiles) but I'm thinking there are probably some good tips that people have for setting up a new machine.
I'm likely to get a Mac but curious about general tips as well.
- auslegung 7y agoThis seems like a commonly referenced article: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles Another thing I do is use as many default apps as possible, with as few tweaks as possible. I do customize things as needed, but I’m always hesitant to customize beyond bare necessities.
- missosoup 7y agoNinite[1] lets you pick and choose from a pretty large list of frequently used windows software and generates a single installer that sets them all up in one shot. https://ninite.com https://ninite.com
- reportgunner 7y agoDisassembler is a collection of powershell snippets that lets you disable features of Win10 that you don't use. It also supports presets and snippets for enablement of said features. https://github.com/Disassembler0 https://github.com/Disassembler0