Your data is spread eagle cross the block
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I’ve been using Linux for ages but I needed Windows 11 for Unreal Engine 5.7
Glad I got out two years ago. Never going back.
Laughs in Tux
MS at least permits to desactivate all this crap (naturally not documented, but activated by default), it's all in the settings, services and registry (eg.desactivate SysMain, whith which MS ~~steal~~ share your Bandwidth). Apart there are also a ton of other services and "features" which remain active by default, despite not longer needed since 15 years, eg.Prefetch, IndexService, Hibernate and other (eg.AI), slowing down the system and wasting RAM. Most optimizer apps, like ShutUp10 and others can help, if you don't want to do it by yourself (!!!). To make easier the access, God Mode still works in Windows 11, or download Super God Mode. Windows always need work to turn it in a fast and usable OS with an reasonable privacy (remember that some telemetry make sense, eg.for update checks (Important security updates, also for drivers)
Mandatory to install Portmaster.
Or, and this may be a difficult concept for the Windows-brained to grasp, use an operating system that you don't have to fight and beat into submission for it to do what you want and only what you want.
It's your computer, why would you give control over it to anyone else?
Linux I've had to fight and beat into submission just to try and install it without accidentally overwriting my windows installation, and have all my hardware working. I've tried and failed 6 times now
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Any idea about Win11 IoT LTSC? I use that in a VM, pretty nice, very barebones OTB, I use CTT tuner to just remove microslop edge.
Once a software I use has a native Linux version and not a hacky buggy work around I'll move my main production machine. Got a box with proxmox on it with two vms of Linux. No issues with Linux other than not being able to use my wireless Xbox controller dongle... And Xbox controllers. Though I'm certain it's a configuration issue.
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