I’ve seen a lot of complaints and Windows 11 on Lemmy, (ads in the OS, intrusive AI, SSD damage, privacy issues, etc.) I’ve gone to Linux on my laptop, but I don’t believe I can do this for my daily driver desktop. So if I’m forced to update to 11, I’d like to do so in the “safest possible manner.” Any guidance would be appreciated.
http://massgrave.dev/.
Install the LTSC IoT edition of Windows, which comes minus the bloat. It’s sort of an official Microsoft minimal install version. You can activate it with the scripts you find at massgrave.
Thirded! Its what i use on my only non-linux pc. I will help you make a bootable usb drive if you want. I installed it 2 years ago. In that time, it has received maybe 4 or 5 updates requiring a reboot. Everytime, i go to check to see if it has reinstalled Edge or any AI bloatware. It has not.
this one
This is the best answer, by far. Also look to use StartAllBack on top of that. Best modern Windows experience.