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(I know that this is not the ideal solution, but) I had sucesss by installing a trimmed-down 'gamer' version of Windows 11 on a similarly high-specced PC, and i
by mft_ 4y ago
(I know that this is not the ideal solution, but) I had sucesss by installing a trimmed-down 'gamer' version of Windows 11 on a similarly high-specced PC, and it's still blazingly fast nearly a year later.
(If you go this route, you've got to be careful what's been trimmeed, mind, if you want to use it for general purposes - mine doesn't have WSL and seems to have damaged printing support, which is obviously suboptimal depending on your needs.)
- overgard 4y agoHow does one find such an edition?
- nyanpasu64 4y agoAmeliorated Windows 10 is one "distro" I use and (blindly) trust. It lacks store app support (not a problem), .appx package support (annoying when you want Windows Terminal), creating new user accounts (unacceptable on any machine used by multiple people), and has questionable "security" decisions by default like requiring a separate admin password for elevation, disabling VBS scripts, and an ugly logon screen wallpaper that requires downloading and blindly trusting a PowerShell script from the Internet to change (https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs https://git.ameliorated.info/Joe/amecs). Frankly... if you're using it for situations that need security, you're better off running the (documented) amelioration steps yourself than downloading shady ISOs and wallpaper changers from online.
- mft_ 4y agoTorrent sites, ideally combined wiith a legitimate serial #.