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If you want to have the most minimal Windows setup: - Don't use an antivirus - Stop unused services running in the background (e.g: services.msc) - Turn off
by partycoder 9y ago
If you want to have the most minimal Windows setup:
- Don't use an antivirus
- Stop unused services running in the background (e.g: services.msc)
- Turn off all vision effects including compositing and animation
Then you might want to set up a firewall to block all the nonsense like SMB, NetBIOS, etc. You can also set up a cheap old machine to act as your firewall, reverse proxy cache, antivirus/antispam, etc.
You can set up a script to turn on all the printing related services when you are actually going to use a printer.
- fra0 9y agoPick up an LTSB release and remove the desktop (custom shell). It looks a lot like Arch / Debian with first class hardware support.
- partycoder 9y agoWhile LTSB looks good (fewer bundled apps, that's great), it is very dissimilar from Arch or Debian. Regarding hardware compatibility, please be aware of the fact that Debian supports many more processor architectures than Windows. Maybe Windows will support some peripherals better, but Linux has improved a lot in this respect. Chances are out of the box support for hardware is better in Linux than it is on Windows these days.