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Win11Debloat
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Raphire / Win11Debloat
Win11Debloat
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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What it is
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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The key to having a nice time with Windows is 1) to give it loads of memory (32GB+ surely) and 2) to run a debloater script the moment you pick up a new system e.g.…
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What Hacker News says
5 sourcesIt appears to boil down to powershell scripts and "playbooks" that disable services, and one that installs LibreWolf?
Much more simple project here that "debloats" Windows 11:
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
Atlas seems to be doing quite a bit like downloading archives, unzipping them, and installing executables.
In Atlas: A Windows modification to optimize performance, privacy and usabilityNo i mean like 1 out of 100 linux installs across different laptop models will require a tweak or so, and thats usually for like ACPI specific stuff for like function buttons. The core OS features work flawlessly for work.
Furthermore, Win 11 gets a very bad wrap unfairly these days. At home on my desktop, I use Win 11 Pro with WSL2 and it works amazingly well for anything, including ML training. Just run this https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat.
In Ask HN: Why do you use Apple products?This is just what I could find in a few minutes. Some are more privacy-focused, some are more de-bloat focused. Some add new features or enable new tweaks. Some are flexible, some are one-and-done. They're everywhere since Win 10 released.
https://www.ntlite.com/
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/
https://github.com/builtbybel/debotnet
https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
https://www.revi.cc/revios/download/?method=playbook
In Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 imageScripts like https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat help, but should not be needed in the first place.
Note that modern Linux is also leaning towards the same trend. But i admit it is still much easier to avoid those for power users. Snap, i'm looking at you also...
In The unreasonable effectiveness of i3, or: ten years of a boring desktop env