@superboom12s Welcome to the instance!

Problem with that, though is on your typical home and professional editions, with every update the bloat will end up getting reinstalled and the registry hacks reverted.

The only way to use Windows at this point is through the IoT Enterprise edition with group policies configured to reduce as much of the telemetry as possible.

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@Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha Tbh it was getting worse and worse, the only things keeping me on windows are baking lighting in unity engine, vr, discord streaming, image editing.

@Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha Oh and ShareX... My productivity apps ​​

@Saorsa @alex @xaetacore @musha Something else that can be done is using Windows server.

Of course you will have to get it illegally since chances are that your computer is worth less than what they ask you to use the OS and I don't know how Win11 ​​ Server is, but the Windows 10 versions were much better (in my experience) than the LTSC versions with some debloating tools.

@alex @Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha tbh, having the reason that you can't leave a spyware filled os be because other spy filled software is keeping you is something.

@superboom12s @Saorsa @xaetacore @musha I like win11 but bloat kinda effs up the whole thing.

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@alex @Saorsa @xaetacore @musha Have you tried lite 11? I don't know much about it (and Windows in general) and you probably already knew about it, but maybe it is better for you

@katzenismus @Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha Yeah it is wild ​​. I have most of my friends there so moving to something new without compromising is kind of difficult.

@alex @Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha if there is a will there is a way. im pretty sure most of the things you mentiones can be run on linux. and the ones that can't... maybe it's time to find something new

Same reason why I haven't entirely left Discord behind. There's people I talk to on there occasionally and one guy I talk with frequently that doesn't seem interested in Matrix. That and the various game related communities.

I've gotten pretty close to just leaving behind Discord though due to the government of the United Kingdom wanting to snoop on the communication of their citizens.

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@superboom12s @Saorsa @xaetacore @musha I try to avoid custom win 11 builds. I don't trust MS but trusting random person to provide virus free OS ISO is a bit harder.

@Saorsa @alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha spelling out there whole name like that makes them seem like an evil entity hellbent on making people's life worse

@Saorsa @katzenismus @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha For me the entire beat saber modding is happening there.

For IoT to be used in the manner it has, they have to make their build for it slim and include the functionality for managing those clients with Windows Server or Azure. So it is guaranteed to be light. As for any concerns about telemetry, from what I've heard you can reduce it to a bare minimum through group policies and probably further with stuff like shutup10.

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@Saorsa @alex @katzenismus @xaetacore @musha I just left Discord cause I found it annoying and I didn't like it at all, I didn't had any friends there so I just removed it ​​

They are.

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@Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha I do use shutup10 yea

Most of their software can probably be found on the AUR tbh.

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@Saorsa @alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha i was mostly thinking flatpak, but yeah, there too