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Cloning files from GitHub is really easy whether you're using Windows or the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The Microsoft-owned GitHub platform is the largest of its kind for sharing and collaborating on a variety of code projects. It's also completely free to use for individuals and if a repository is public, anyone can clone it and use the files within.
GitHub is used for a variety of reasons, not least as a way to distribute your own code. One of the absolute basics is cloning a repository from GitHub to your local machine. If you've never done this before it could seem like a foreign concept, but it's really easy to do.
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