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Simplifying the setup - first round. This is not yet touching the python installation.

  • Drop support for Intel Macs (Homebrew dropped it last week)
  • Add a quick check at the start of the setup (desktop, not terminal)
  • Remove DBeaver (we don't use it anymore)
  • Simpler dotfiles flow: we assume it's the student's first bootcamp as the base case (like in DE setup)
  • Google Cloud with ADC like in DA and DE setup (so without service account, much faster - new MLOps takes this already into account)
  • No Windows compiler (we work with WSL)
  • Drop some outdated checks (like version of xz)
  • A start note telling students not to experiment nor use an LLM
  • Streamline Python checks (assume happy flow, if it fails we'll notice)
  • Put gcloud installation together with the gcloud authentication (less context switching)
  • Move the part about accessing WSL - Windows all the way to the end

I made a no-update-2026 branch for people who want to go back to the old setup.

julesvanrie and others added 21 commits September 17, 2026 20:54
We currently give students 3 options depending on if they did a bootcamp before, and on which machine. Students have to unfold one of the options.

Too often they miss this step. The large majority has not done a bootcamp before, nor used dotfiles on another machine.

So we take that as the base case, with a dropdown for other cases. The dropdown redirects them to a TA with some options. We can improve this in a later phase, or add a Q&A for this specific use case. Low prio at this point.

This is inspired by the work already done in DE setup.
We already installed both before.

Version 5.2 of xz is around since 2014. Pretty sure we won't run into a fossil.
We check it later in the notebook.

Let's assume the happy scenario:
- Python is installed
- Jupyter is installed
- We see the correct Python version in the notebook
- Packages are installed, evidenced by Pandas

If it's the wrong Python already in the terminal, it will surface either
when we try to launch Jupyter, or when we check the version in the notebook.
If the version in the notebook is correct, it will be correct in the terminal too.
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julesvanrie and others added 7 commits September 19, 2026 15:38
No reason to use this, if $BROWSER is properly set up, which the setup ensures.

If not, we should fix the underlying problem (so that Jupyter Notebook opens properly).
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