Preparing to upgrade to windows 11. Have a bitestick and a punching bag but need advice. [Solved] (lemmy.world)

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Due to CAD/CAM and the nature of my industry, I'm stuck with windows on my daily driver for the foreseeable future. (Been using Linux since Ubuntu was new, have multiple servers and old chromebooks running different flavors.)

I've been putting off dealing with this. Goatfucking bullshit pain in my dick. Ffffffuck me right in the ass. I would happily slit Clippy's throat right in front of his little paperclip children and sleep like a baby.

Can I pretty please get recommendations on upgrading to 11 and unfucking it as much as possible? Comfortable editing the registry, using the command line, and monkeying with the BIOS. Anybody know of a good guide for neutering all the AI shit, copliot, onedrive nagging?

*Edit - Solved:

Thank you all very much! This is the advice I was looking for.

Long ago, I learned that when preparing to do a machine incantation; you must give the machine a good cussing. It shows the machine you are the boss and the machine gods are more likely to smile upon your efforts. I have a black cat and crossroads dirt in case things get real bad.

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[-] Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Look into one of the Windows 11 debloat tools, I've had good experience with this one

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

I mainly use it to remove default apps, telemetry, AI stuff.

Also use Rufus to create the USB install it should let you create a Windows user without a Microsoft account. Worst case during the Windows 11 install pretend you're installing for an organization with a corporate domain, that forces the Windows 11 installer to let you type a regular Windows user/password during setup.

That's usually enough to get you to a somewhat clean Windows 11 install without all the extra BS that gets crammed in there by default. But it's still Microsoft so it's quite possible you'll get a new set of BS to deal with in the next Windows update :P

EDIT: My main driver at home is Linux but the above is what I do with my test Windows VMs and work related tasks.

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'll be looking at all of this. Going to probably try LTSC first. Rufus also is sounding interesting. Thank you much for the write-up, it is greatly appreciated!

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