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I just had to set up the first Windows machine I’ve owned in 20 years. Between Windows 11 itself and the garbage the hardware manufacturer throw on there, it’s

I just had to set up the first Windows machine I’ve owned in 20 years. Between Windows 11 itself and the garbage the hardware manufacturer throw on there, it’s awful. Upsells everywhere. Horseshit I do not want clotting things up. After spending most of my time on macOS it was really quite shocking to see how atrocious things are on the Windows side. I’m sure you can eventually get things tuned how you want, but who’s going to trust an OS that so anti-user right out of the box?

llanowarelves 4y ago
Yep. But since you have it, install Chocolatey, using that to manage these next programs (and more, i try to install all my apps through it): * Install O&O ShutUp to turn all that garbage off. The suggested settings there are pretty good. * Everything (yes, "Everything" is the name of the program) for actually useable (and good) search, since Windows search sucks for some reason (I can back up other commenters here). * Bulk Crap Uninstaller to really uninstall stuff (edit registry and delete leftover program files etc). You can use this to uninstall all the junk Windows installs automatically. There's lots of others but these are my go to. I have base of a bunch of packages and settings I like.