Hacker News Reader

Comment by DeathArrow | Hacker News Reader

There are software and scripts to decrapify Windows 11. After uninstalling and stopping everything that's not needed and making start menu and the bar behave like in Windows 7, it's quite decent.

This adds maybe 20 more minutes to install time but it's worth.

View on HN

Unfortunately all that crap eventually comes back. Microsoft likes to reset settings… I’m pretty sure I must’ve spent the majority of my youth setting the same explorer settings over and over and over again … And it never ends with any custom setup you do; given enough time it reverts.

I don't think anyone doubts that you can do this. It's more that I refuse to pay for an OS which needs to be de-crapped in the first place. If Microsoft can't make something which prioritizes my needs above their corporate metrics, then they don't get my money.

LTSC is likely what you want then (needs to be purchased through a VAR but it's not hard to find a smaller one that will sell single copies)

My company has access to these licenses to resell through our distributor Pax8. Contact me (profile) if interested.

Can you just expand on the significance of LTSC for a personal user ? MS says it's for "Medical Devices, Kiosks ..." but I presume the reason the you mention it is that it's a version of Windows 10 that is expected to receive security updates for X years into the future ?

Is it also de-crappified ? No games, requests for Microsoft accounts etc ?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com