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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Man, can you imagine how good a bare bones version of win 10 would be? Drop all the useless software and telemetry services, only run the 3 or 4 background services that people use, and use flat window decorations like win 8. Essentially a modernized windows XP. Would be rad.

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Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Meh its a seriously dated OS thats had layers of lipstick added onto the turd all the while gaslighting its customers while stealing from them.

Its beyond insecure, hasn’t innovated in a long time and their answer to this? Online accounts and slop to steal more customer data…

Stockholm syndrome in PCs is very real.

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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s multiple projects out there for it. Windows 10 Ameliorated is/was an open source project of PowerShell scripts you run against the installation media (and I think afer install, it’s been a while) to get LTSC Windows 10 stripped down as much as possible.

It’s what I run in a VM for my work’s VPN connection software (and then for the RDP session too). Keeps an extra level of separation from my personal stuff.

I could probably get things working in a Linux VM, but it’s not worth the trouble for me.

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- Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, very true. It would be so nice to be able to get that as an OOBE behavior rather than a hacked together set of registry hacks and patched executables. Not denigrating the devs of these projects, they do an amazing job out engineering Microsoft’s attempts to stop them. It’s just absurd that the primary/only option for the operating system of a set of devices as ubiquitous as personal computers is such advertisment riddled shit with no ability to even buy out of it.
  
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