Win11Debloat – declutter and improve your Windows experience

I rather suggest Win 11 LTSC. The Windows 11 IoT Enterprise 2024 LTSC supposedly:

- doesn't have the tpm requirement

- no copilot, recall, edge browser, ms store

- allows local setup

- no feature updates, only security

- built-in options to disable telemetry

Keys go for $300 in some stores, or, one can use an activation emulator, or massgrave.

Scripts can be good for one-time use, but it's swimming against the current. As soon as you stop swimming, the current wins. With the LTSC, you don't swim against the current, but rather choose a different current. In its case, it's MS themselves who provide the debloating.

why not windows 10 LTSC? higher performance

Where can one buy a key? I got denied when I tried buying one because I was not a company.

Anyone can be a company if you try hard enough!

Personally I gave up a long time ago and just installed Debian Linux. But it’s wild to me that the average non-technical/casual windows user has to put up with so much bs… it’s an atrocious ux

I tried all of these debloating scripts a couple of years back but nowadays I just stick with LTSC

The best way to debloat Windows is to switch to Linux. I think that GNOME3 is now more polished than either Windows or Mac, and 95% of Windows games just run out of the box through Proton.

- I am thinking of writing a very detailed post right here on HN on testing all the windows 11 debloat tools within a VM. My only question is how do I determine or say benchmark or measure which of these debloat tools works the best at the end?

I see them going for $150-300 on ebay, just don't ask where they came from.

While the 95% figure is possibly correct when considering all games since the beginning of Windows, the remaining 5% includes most modern multiplayer games.

Keep a spreadsheet of all the optional features / bloat you’re looking to remove, rate each solution as a percentage of how many of those columns it ticks, and maybe also do a review on boot time and idle RAM usage?

You can get a legit windows 11 key from a reseller for an order of magnitude less - isn’t it worth a couple hours of your time to save ~$250?

is there a tool that i can use to say stress test the OS as a whole that ll give me a score like how we do apache bench http tests because what is bloat might be very subjective on my part. is there a more objective measure?

I would've expected this kind of inane take on Reddit or X, not here. Or on SO where somebody asks "How do I do X?" and is told "X sucks, you want to use Y".

Just use Rufus+MAS for Win10 IoT LTSC, no need to stoop down to win11