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Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware

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Re: Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware

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Is this page created by a buzzword-generator for April fools?

Btw: Have W11 fixed so that's it's possible to "ungroup" items in the task bar yet? I reverted back to W10 after a few weeks because it was absolutely unusable having all my open editor windows grouped to a single thing in the taskbar, making it hard to quickly switch to the correct one.

Re: Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware

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Whole thing screams scam or April Fools joke. There's one commit to the source code repository. Anyone want to try it on a VM and report back?

Playbook files are password protected archives. Anyone cares to reverse engineer the password from the executable?

password is "malte"

https://ibb.co/BNtHF1X

Re: Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware

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Seriously, why bother? Windows 11 is beyond redemption.

Because eventually Win 10 will stop being supported and we'll have to switch to win 11 whether we like it or not. It's nice that tools exist already to get rid of most spyware.

Maybe it's time to ditch Windows once and for all. Put spywares aside, the reliability is ridiculous.

Bought a surface pro for kids, and had to clean wipe Windows 11 less than a week as they pushed an update causing external display to flicker, uninstalling the update screwed up the whole system and the system restore did not work at all. So had to spend half a day just to install Windows 10.

For my own laptop, mostly looked okay until a couple of days ago except a couple different minor issues got fixed now and then. All of a sudden, Edge became unbearably slow. Simply create a new tab or switching to another one could take a minute despite the cpu usage was less than 10% and over 32GB free mem available. Tried everything such as switching off hardware acceleration etc., none worked. Then I noticed that the URL inspection related fuction which was for sure turned off was back on again. Turned those off those, it got much faster but still slower than it should be.

That's the last straw. Installed Fedora and it looks great by default. However, I still need to find some substitution for the stuffs I use on Windows. Once that's done, Windows 11 can go.

Re: Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you can do the same thing on a normal system, by what % is AME less safe vs a patched Windows?

If you for example consider a typical company security policy this is 100% less secure considering any vulnerabilities in windows itself minus the the attack surface of the different telemetry systems that have been disabled. If you care not to report your usage to Microsoft or any agency that Microsoft would need to release data to this is 100% 'secure'. Security has become the main argument for unwanted ongoing spy…

Blackmailing is screaming "yOuR sYsTeM iS nOt SeCuRe!1!!@1!1!#11$%$!" to anyone who shirks updates of any kind. As if the sky is falling if they so much as miss a single update.

To anyone who engages in that blackmail, and honestly gaslighting: Kindly fuck off. That argument has never been correct nor valuable information.

Re: Ameliorated: Windows 10 and 11 minus the spyware

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How's this different from NTLite, and does anyone know how this plays along with the ability to update your system?

It's garbage. It claims to make your windows better... but then it breaks updates, and installs random software. Like VLC, OnlyOffice, Firefox, random wallpapers... What if you don't want those? Or what if it installs other malicious things?
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