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Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If retail laptops came with enterprise or the upgrade to enterprise was free or the home and pro versions had the same minimal crapware as enterprise then you might have a point.

But that isn't the case and Linux is still free and not full of shit so the smugness is mostly justified and you're mostly wrong.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -4 points 6 days ago

  1. Register your new laptop.

  2. Wipe and reinstall an official ISO from Windows without the crapware.

  3. Best served tweaked with some PowerShell scripting.

or

  1. Download your Linux ISO and install

  2. Best served tweaked with CLI work to get everything working. If the drivers are even available.