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[–] Andi 58 points 1 year ago (14 children)

When choosing the region/language, choose "English (World)". Boom, bloatware be gone.

You can safely change it to your correct region once you've logged in (Note: the Windows Store won't work until you do).

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

the Windows Store won’t work until you do

So just never do it. Noted.

[–] Andi 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember some 'core' apps, such as Paint and Calculator are delivered via the Store now too - so they'll also be missing.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just pirate a version of paint

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find a scenario where paint.net doesn't come out on top when compared to the version of paint that ships with Windows and it's free.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

paint opens a bit faster, and often I want to just draw some stupid rectangles with 5 words and 4 arrows real quick and screenshot it and say "look here's the mock-up"

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

Good. Those are easily replaced by FOSS alternatives.

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