just delete the service entirely, same with defender
it's great
my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP
if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
it's great
my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP
if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
Sadly, I do :( Valorant is the main one that keeps my Windows partition around, for better or worse. Also sadly still there's some performance overhead for Linux gaming today, I hope that goes away in the future (for Intel/Nvidia cards especially)
not quite there for me yet I'm afraid!
it's an OS with constant built-in ads and spyware
it would have been considered malware in the 2000s
Windows Update, on the other hand, is part of my threat model.