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Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

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Re: Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

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Post by MikusR »

hospitalJail wrote: post #170
duffyjp wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mostly use Macs, and without wasting your time with the details my CTRL-C equivalent in the Terminal is WindowsKey-C. Well, I was in Powershell on Windows 11 yesterday and needed to CTRL-C something and muscle memoried my Mac shortcut and it popped up some sort of chat GUI with no [X] button. What the heck is this stuff? Who wants these features? I do have to say after much reluctance I upgraded my PC from Windows…

If you don't have a video card, it takes minutes to change to Linux. If you have a video card, it takes hours. Still better than M$.

What is M$?

Re: Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

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Post by toyg »

PlutoIsAPlanet wrote: post #160
toyg wrote: post #152

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These options are more like "I deleted a whole bunch of stuff in xorg.conf and my apt-get can't apply patches to KMail". An update-delivery mechanism shouldn't break because the user doesn't want to see ads or run Teams at startup. If the problem is that Windows Update cannot work unless all patches apply flawlessly, then that's a failure of design. If the problem is that the patches themselves assume that things the…

> If the problem is that Windows Update cannot work unless all patches apply flawlessly, then that's a failure of design. Not at all, it's better for an update to just immediately fail due to unsupported changes made to the OS than potentially leave the system in a unstable state. Windows was going to move to an image-based OS where updates would be atomic, but sadly that never happened (Windows 10X)

The fact that failing to update some Notepad functionality could leave the system "unstable" says a lot about the engineering culture at Microsoft, I guess.

Re: Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

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Post by rafiere »

nerdjon wrote: post #5

I don't remember which one I have used in the past, if it was this one or not. (I think it is but not 100% sure) But this really is not for someone who does not really understand Windows. I ended up having a ton of issues gaming on my computer after this and it took a few tries to get it right. Personally if you don't mind the less than legal options, I highly recommend Windows 10 LTS. I use it on my Steam Deck and i…

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Re: Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

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Post by rafiere »

OliveMate wrote: post #138

Has anyone here tried this? When projects like this normally pop up I see people talk about potential issues with future Windows updates. -- I'm in a bit of a tricky spot, in the next month or two I'll be building a new PC and I really don't know what to do about the OS. Windows is familiar, easy, and I know how to fix things with it, but the increasing amount of bloat and needless online integration is putting me of…

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Re: Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware

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Post by nguyenkien »

nerdjon wrote: post #184
nguyenkien wrote: post #105

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Look like it's MS way to shoo people away from this version (Which contain no bloatware)

Right? It was clearly written in a way to convince most people not to use it but it's a perfectly viable Windows installation for most people. I mean there is some truth that it is missing stuff, I had to install some gaming libraries. But it just installed it when I missed it, it was easier than dealing with dependencies in some repo's I have worked with. And this was on a touch screen without a keyboard and mouse o…

Unless you play candy crush saga, there no way it go back to "normal"
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