You can establish the "steady state" of the circuit for all time t < 0 by inspection because nothing is changing. You know all the currents and you know all the voltages. This will be true up to an infinitesimally small interval prior to t=0 when the switch is closed. At the moment t=0 everything starts changing and your task is to determine how things change and where things end up after all of the transients have stopped beating up and down.
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