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Maybe I haven't updated Windows 11 enough yet. I've always been avoiding it but I will have to support someone that needs to upgrade so I installed it in a VM to see how horrible it was.
To my surprise, after uninstalling most of Microsoft's crap like the Copilot app, One Drive, Teams, O365, and after changing the contex and start menu, it's clean enough to be acceptable.
Is it only a question of time before Windows Update reinstalls all of this? Or it's because my old hardware is not "AI enabled"?
I know it won't be possible to debloat as much in the future but so far, ~~a lot of it~~ some of it seems to ~~thankfully~~ be avoidable with a bit of tech savviness.
EDIT: Haha. I don't use it a lot and it shows. I'm just messing around and there's a Copilot icon in Notepad!
I stopped supporting hardware years ago when their users didn't switch to Ubuntu (that OS is maintenance free, I never hear from any problems). As long as it isn't hardcore gamers (which have to help themselves) nobody "needs" windows on their private machine.
Gamers don't need Windows.
There are games with "kernel level anti cheat" that don't run on Linux. Fortnite is one example.
If you know a way to run Fortnite reliably and stable on Linux please tell me, I'd be very thankful. For most games you are right.