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There's many reasons a "new guy" might not be able to set up a dev environment in what you might call a reasonable amount of time.

- IT doesn't have the hardware ready

- New team member is inexperienced in using an IDE, but the entire development environment setup is GUI based

- New team member is inexperienced in a CLI, but entire dev environment setup is CLI based

- New team member is working from home and hasn't received hardware for new start date on their first day

- New team member is a fresh graduate, and needs actual mentoring and training

- Link rot/outdated documentation on setting up a dev environment.

- New person may not be technical (I work in games, we have artists)

- Working from a location where internet speeds to download a toolchain, OS updates, docker images are slow.



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