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Automate the setup and configuration of your Windows development environment.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2026-06-08 · latest 2026-10-31

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  1. …setting up a new machine, i run a fresh install. Then once booted, i run the developer config ( https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig/ ) and it gets everything i need installed. No Microsoft Login, no Candy Crush, WSL…
  2. …Microsoft's official attempt at solving this problem? seems to be "Windows developer configs" -> https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig which is described as A WinGet Configuration (DSC) file that sets up a clean, lightweight,…
    comment by contextfree · 2026-06-29 · in Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
  3. …WSL, starship, coreutils, node, python, whatever other SDKs you want, etc. with one command. https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig I believe they used the word edition because they plan on offering W365 cloud VMs with this…
    comment by thewebguyd · 2026-06-08 · in Apple WWDC 2026