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486 points ethanpil | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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anyfoo ◴[25 Jun 25 00:27 UTC] No.44372516[source]▶
Fun. I must admit I don't really know who this is for, but it seems fun.
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DrJokepu ◴[25 Jun 25 00:43 UTC] No.44372607[source]▶
It’s right there in the readme actually:

> The goal is to provide an accessible editor that even users largely unfamiliar with terminals can easily use.

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scblock ◴[25 Jun 25 00:49 UTC] No.44372647[source]▶
That may be the written goal, but I doubt that's the actual reason the project exists.
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1. justsomehnguy ◴[25 Jun 25 01:03 UTC] No.44372718[source]▶
My guess would be there are some people at MS who, somehow, still can do something fun. Because they are not assigned on the another project on how to make OOBE even more miserable.

/rant Today I spent 3 (three) hours trying to setup a new MSI AIO with Windows Pro. Because even though it's would be joined to the local ADDS and managed from there - I need to join some Internet connected network, setup a 3 stupid recovery questions which would make NIST blush and wait another 30 minutes for a forced update download which I cannot skip. Oh, something went wrong - let's repeat the process 3 times.

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2. xeonmc ◴[25 Jun 25 01:06 UTC] No.44372735[source]▶
Perhaps those are the things that doesn’t take a Ph.D to develop.