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Ya, there are quite a lot of guides out there. On youtube and plan text guides as well.

You'll find a lot of overlap on most. But gotta watch and look at a lot of them to find all the minor/overlocked gems/gold mines!
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
Ya, there are quite a lot of guides out there. On youtube and plan text guides as well.

You'll find a lot of overlap on most. But gotta watch and look at a lot of them to find all the minor/overlocked gems/gold mines!
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I guess I'm hoping for some real guru of gurus to net all this out to just "one guide to rule them all" here. :rolleyes:
 
ha, lol.

Nop. you just gotta set a side a least half a saturday or half a day off. Do fresh install and run through all the guides or top 3 and see what works for you, what doesn't and keep a detailed list of the things that Break it.

I can't count the amount of times where I: " WELP I guess I should NOT have disabled that process/service, and have to reinstall again" when I shoulda wrote it down 3 reinstalls ago. :D
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
ha, lol.

Nop. you just gotta set a side a least half a saturday or half a day off. Do fresh install and run through all the guides or top 3 and see what works for you, what doesn't and keep a detailed list of the things that Break it.

I can't count the amount of times where I: " WELP I guess I should NOT have disabled that process/service, and have to reinstall again" when I shoulda wrote it down 3 reinstalls ago. :D
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Been there, done that lol..

I try to do all my tweaking/debloating in a VM first and "test" it out for a little bit before I roll those changes on my main desktop.
 
So I actually got around to installing the Vending Machine Edition of Win11 last weekend and have been running it a bit. Honestly I'm pretty stoked about it. I just like the fact that it's not spammed up with a bunch of useless bs that I don't want or will never use in the first place. It feels good...nice and lean and clean. I have to say, and it's not a placebo effect, that things do def seem to be running a little smoother.

For example the cutscenes in Ratchet&Clank used to be all over the place framerate wise with my Win10 install, and for no good reason. There would be a cutscene with hardly anything going on and the fps would drop to ~38 to 40 something, to the 50's and back to 60 for a second, and then plummet back down continually. Made no sense. This was all with the release day drivers for the 9070 cards. They're locked to a steady 60 now. To be fair, I hadn't reformatted win10 for years, so maybe it was a little more gunked up than normal lol. The actual game ran fine for the most part, but needless to say it was time for a reformat regardless.

Anyway I'll most likely be sticking with this version here indefinitely tbh. I really like the UI, and I also really like the new start menu workings - hide the clutter and just show me what I want and what I regularly use. Microsoft did good on that, but typically, they made some fucking dumbass decisions on here as well. Such as the pointless right click context menu, the missing photo-viewer, and not being able to move the taskbar to the top or sides (I've been running it on the top for so long now I can't even remember when I started, easily 15 years).

All of these thing are addressable with regedits and third-party apps, (explorer patcher - tyvm!) but again you gotta jump through hoops to get control over or access to basic features. Thanks to Explorer Patcher I'm running a bit of win10 look and functionality along with some of the newer win11 stuff. Having the Start menu and quick launch in the center is a nice feature imo, considering many people now-a-days are using large 4k or ultrawide monitors. But certain things you just become accustomed to over the years (I've been running win10 since the Spring of 2017) and want to retain that look and feel.

For what it's worth, I'd say to anyone wanting to give this windows LTSC stuff a shot to go ahead and do it. It's actually not terrible, and to me these kind of stripped down/debloated OS's are no-brainers and the way to go. I already like it much more than win10.
 
other than opening yourself up to whatever they could potentially jam into their packs, and not being legit, sure....
 
horse said:
Vending Machine Edition of Win11
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=?????
Honestly I'm pretty stoked about it.
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I have the oposite reaction. Right now, (TL;DR) I'm running a vanilla Win 11 on my laptop. To say I hate the UI, that would be a great example of understatement.
I just like the fact that it's not spammed up with a bunch of useless bs
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Huh? Exactly which version of Windows are you running. Not 11 Pro, certainly.
. I really like the UI, and I also really like the new start menu workings

- hide the clutter and just show me what I want and what I regularly use. Microsoft did good on that, but typically, they made some fucking dumbass decisions on here as well. Such as the pointless right click context menu, the missing photo-viewer, and not being able to move the taskbar to the top or sides (I've been running it on the top for so long now I can't even remember when I started, easily 15 years).
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I repeat my question.
All of these thing are addressable with regedits and third-party apps, (explorer patcher - tyvm!) but again you gotta jump through hoops to get control over or access to basic features\
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Sure it's possible but WHY IS IT NECESSARY? There was no such need to make Win 10 palatable.
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For what it's worth, I'd say to anyone wanting to give this windows LTSC stuff a shot to go ahead and do it. It's actually not terrible, and to me these kind of stripped down/debloated OS's are no-brainers and the way to go. I already like it much more than win10.
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Again, we have to politely agree to disagree.
 
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rufio said:
Yeah...

I'd rather install normally with the location set as "world" and then remove/GP what I don't want active afterward. Or use a personally created autounattend.xml file.
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Does that still work nowadays?
 
I believe everyone should do as they damn well please and ignore those who think differently. I also believe stupid should hurt. If someone shoots themselves in the foot or is a victim of a scam, so be it. Live and learn, not live and obey.
 
Deadjasper said:
I believe everyone should do as they damn well please and ignore those who think differently. I also believe stupid should hurt. If someone shoots themselves in the foot or is a victim of a scam, so be it. Live and learn, not live and obey.
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Not when the rest of us have to deal with the cleanup... It's out of a basic sense of compassion that we try to help, not because we're trying to make people "obey".
 
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