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Amazingly incorrect observation. All "non-bloat" mentioned above is mostly one big pile of shit that you generally do not need and might need only on specific

Amazingly incorrect observation. All "non-bloat" mentioned above is mostly one big pile of shit that you generally do not need and might need only on specific machine AND in specific context. Running this concrete debloater might produce some unwanted side effects which are easy enough to fix, but it sure as heaven makes a system at least x2 faster ALL THE TIME. Yeah, spotify is a bloat if you don't use it, just as candy crash. Defender slows down computer amazingly and those people that know how to use this are typically not in a line for babysitting and don't go around clicking britni's nude photo.jpg.exe. Windows updates are better if controled, as they more often freck up computer then don't nowdays, I definitely do not want frecking biometric shit on anything that is not surface etc.. Furthermore, scripts can be inspected and quickly fixed/forked to your own desire. Do yourself a favor and run this first thing on fresh OS. I just imagine a world where MS ships barebone OS where stuff should be enabled rather then the opposite. One more thing should be done for even faster OS - disable MS Store. I lived weeks wondering why my system suddenly becomes slow as a snail until I did this, later to find its a well known not fixed problem. Or you can just make your brand new machine feel like its 5 years old, once all above and more of the shit starts fighiting for CPU/disk/mem/... attention....

zamalek 7y ago
> typically not in a line for babysitting and don't go around clicking britni's nude photo.jpg.exe Do you understand what a drive-by attack is? Defender is the last line of defense against unknown vulnerabilities, assuming you have the latest security patches... > Windows updates are better if controled
floatingatoll 7y ago
My years-old iMac runs Windows 1904 just fine, and about three years ago Defender stopping thrashing my disk to death. I’m not sure what they improved but clearly it’s a lot more at peace with itself. I’ve made a point never^ to expert user pebcak it, and last April’s update was quite chill and this April’s as well. I did a pass at install time to remove apps I don’t plan to use. The most dramatic things to happen have been an EFI bug in Windows back in 2017 that I had to workaround^^ and when I found that PUBG’s uninstaller left some stupid DRM thing behind years ago that I had to extract manually from the 1904 updates logs to find and remove earlier this year. It just works, otherwise, cloned forward through three Macs to date! And if it can work on an iMac without powershell drama, then surely it can work on any normal PC. ^ One time I cloned it to an SSD and tried some fancy ACPI patching to hack eGPU support into my old hardware, but I ended up deleting it because it offered no improvement over “boring stock install” after days of work. ^^ There was a Windows update in 2017 that assumed your system has only one EFI bootable partition, and would panic if you had 2+, so I taught myself how to hide the rescue partition from Windows to avoid a reinstall.
- majkinetor 7y ago
  > And if it can work on an iMac without powershell drama, then surely it can work on any normal PC. Powershell drama, I like it :) No drama really, just slow machine is all.

zamalek 7y ago

> typically not in a line for babysitting and don't go around clicking britni's nude photo.jpg.exe Do you understand what a drive-by attack is? Defender is the last line of defense against unknown vulnerabilities, assuming you have the latest security patches... > Windows updates are better if controled

floatingatoll 7y ago

My years-old iMac runs Windows 1904 just fine, and about three years ago Defender stopping thrashing my disk to death. I’m not sure what they improved but clearly it’s a lot more at peace with itself. I’ve made a point never^ to expert user pebcak it, and last April’s update was quite chill and this April’s as well. I did a pass at install time to remove apps I don’t plan to use. The most dramatic things to happen have been an EFI bug in Windows back in 2017 that I had to workaround^^ and when I found that PUBG’s uninstaller left some stupid DRM thing behind years ago that I had to extract manually from the 1904 updates logs to find and remove earlier this year. It just works, otherwise, cloned forward through three Macs to date! And if it can work on an iMac without powershell drama, then surely it can work on any normal PC. ^ One time I cloned it to an SSD and tried some fancy ACPI patching to hack eGPU support into my old hardware, but I ended up deleting it because it offered no improvement over “boring stock install” after days of work. ^^ There was a Windows update in 2017 that assumed your system has only one EFI bootable partition, and would panic if you had 2+, so I taught myself how to hide the rescue partition from Windows to avoid a reinstall.

majkinetor 7y ago
> And if it can work on an iMac without powershell drama, then surely it can work on any normal PC. Powershell drama, I like it :) No drama really, just slow machine is all.