Comment by vovavili
7 days ago
>Almost immediately, something will be installed that will require installing the .NET runtime, maybe multiple versions of it.
That's because Windows ships with an ancient .NET 4.8.1 by default. Purely a mistake on Microsoft's part not to bundle modern .NET with their product and force software packaging hell.
Sure, that's only made worse by the suggestion here to not install any version of it at all.