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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The longer part of the windows install process is not the installation. It's removing all the pre-installed bloatware, removing or disabling all the telemetry and other undesired features that are on by default.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

The start menu entries are stored in an encrypted file somewhere beneath a thousand different folders. But its possible to copy a cleaned start menu file and paste it in the correct directory in the default user folder to give new users an ad-free start menu.

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] teft@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Exec@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] theolodger 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Run a distro of linux which is less resource intensive than windows?

[–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, one specific hardware where its manufacturer hasn't written a Linux driver and no one bothered to reverse engineer

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t buy shitty hardware.