I don't really use Windows, And just have a Windows VM I use for testing or compiling some things. The amount of effort I had to spend to turn off things like

I don't really use Windows, And just have a Windows VM I use for testing or compiling some things. The amount of effort I had to spend to turn off things like Search Indexer and Windows Defender is insane. You can disable things in the control panel but it's still not really disabled and you have to play tricks to really disable it somewhere else. And then sometimes it would come back on because ... reasons? I have zero faith that if I disable something (anything!) on Windows that 1) I've actually disabled it, and 2) that it will stay off. Current Windows is absolutely horrible giving any control over the internals – even more so than the old XP/7 systems were. Before my VM I hadn't touched Windows at all for more than ten years, and I was shocked just how difficult some of these things had become.