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[–] harbard@fedia.io 32 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I’m just bitching, but I had to put windows on one of my machines for the first time in just over 10 years (since I was a kid) and I absolutely fucking hate it. slow ass, bloated, clunky ass OS. garbage software.

[–] PleaseLetMeOut@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Just a tip: If you installed Pro or better you can use Group Policies (gpedit.msc) to strip the OS bloat down slightly more than the Home versions. Education and Enterprise also have the telemetry spyware completely removed. But they have a few extra things you'll probably never use and you'll want to disable (like their terrible Remote Desktop stuff, Work Folders, etc.)

(I dual boot for gaming. So I know the pain.)

[–] dil@piefed.zip 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

im sure most of yall know but it was new to me that you can use some terminal commands while installing to activate pro edition and ms office pro and other stuff fairly easily https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

MAS <3

Bonus: If you use the new TSForge method, it's a permanent hardware registration. Meaning you'll never have to activate Windows again, just connect to the internet and it'll do it's thing when it calls home.

It also has ESU support for Windows 10, so you can register for the extended security updates after it reaches EOL completely free.

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