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.
Before I went all in with Linux I used to make a custom autounattended.xml file that you dump in the usb installer root. This tool makes it easy to generate one with your desired options:
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
Then after install, use ShutUp10 to block telemetry/keyloggers/sync and run after every Windows Update because Microsoft resets these things often.
Afaik there is an option in the autounattend tk run scripts at first logon. This could be used to run the ShutUp10 script and create a schuled task that keeps it enabled too