I gave Claude Code a brand-new Windows PC. Five things went wrong before it wrote a line.
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Most Claude Code setup guides are written on a machine that already has years of tools on it. I wanted to see what a stranger's first hour actually looks like on Windows, so I gave Claude Code a machine that had never seen it and recorded everything. Five things went wrong before it wrote a single…
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- 2026-09-30 18:31 · DEV Community — AI
I gave Claude Code a brand-new Windows PC. Five things went wrong before it wrote a line.