I won't buy another Windows laptop. It's no longer possible to disable some "features" so I've given up. Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated. External disks that are only connected for archival purposes (and never updated) get scanned again and again, no matter if I exclude them from scanning. Some graphical popups are also impossible to disable.

There are only a few appliances that I needed Windows for, I will deal with them with other means.