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→Workstation setup
You will need a Linux workstation for your work in this course. If you already have one you like and are used to: that's great, go ahead and use it (VMs from OPS245 don't count). If you don't have one: you need to set it up this week, so that it's ready for next week's Lab 1.
The distribution you use doesn't matter much. The screenshots in the wiki are from a professor's Linux Mint machine, which . Linux mint is a friendly desktop most people don't have trouble with, so if you don't have your own preference: you might as well use that. You can either:
# Install it on a dedicated computer directly, or