Setting up your USB: https://x.com/ghost_motley/status/1804950177611927922

Getting the iso file for rufus: https://x.com/ghost_motley/status/1805021483892146249

Register using some Auto-KMS script, something like https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts might work, haven't checked in in a while.

You really don't have to do scorched earth and install linux. Just do a proper install of win 11 enterprise, with Rufus, and a few minutes disabling anything else you don't like. Also, use explorerpatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix various things like start menu, task bar, etc.

No ads, no Copilot AI, no search using bing, no telemetry, etc. etc. You can safely ignore all the doom and gloom about how windows is getting worse because if you remove all the crap its actually getting better.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    You can safely ignore all the doom and gloom about how windows is getting worse because if you remove all the crap its actually getting better.

    "If you remove all the things that make Windows sucks and install third-party software that adds back basic functionality like being able to move the taskbar to the left of the screen, it doesn't actually suck." Like cmon. As we've learned since Windows 8, it's a cat-and-mouse game between em-dollar sign and scrappy debloater enthusiasts where em-dollar sign will constantly shovel more shit into the OS for debloater enthusiasts to take out with their ever-expanding debloater scripts. Eventually, the current generation of debloater enthusiasts burn out and get replaced by the next generation of debloater enthusiasts.