WINDOWS 10 yeah, BUT... Which one? MODS and Scripts ISO

[Nestor]

Well, what can i say... Recently, here in the Z, I wrote in the thread called "Stripped-down Windows 11 version runs on as little as 2GB of RAM", the following:

I still am in Win 7 64, very stable and happy, will not move from here unless there is a mayor reason for it.

And a MAYOR reason forced me to think about Win 10, (security), how sad, I was very happy indeed with my system, I didn't want or needed anything else...

Honestly, I don't even understand how people in general, all over the world, have accepted such an OS as Win 10, it is unbearably intrusive..., it gets everywhere and makes of you a secondary product of the first product, which is Win 10 itself. I feel you become a prolongation or addendum of the program, they are kind of sucking on humanities' blood for free, I don't like it at all.

So, the only way I see to use this OS is to CUT OFF some of the heavy and useless stuff it comes with.

I have been studding Atlas, it seems really good, but they have gone way too far. I think that an OS like this will create problems for us, nevertheless, I saw a huge community of young guys using it in their DAWs, but I don't trust it, beyond speed. Reliability is much more important that speed.

Atlas so, it is discarded as a serious DAW platform for me.

There are many other OSs based on Win 10 stripped down already, but I don't think they are good for a DAW, I don't know. I didn't know the market moved in such a fast way in a few years, in that respect of creating new OSs, there are about 135 free OSs out there.

Then we have NTLite, which seems to be a very solid way to go, because you can do anything you want with it. In fact, Atlas was created with NTLite. Well, it is cool, but you know, you have to get into it and it will take some time too, it is 40 $ extra you have to think about as well. Don't know...

Then you have this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhY3Y39xeEg

I think it is great, simple, free, and it works very well for what people say.

The three options I see are these:

1

Win 10 untached

2

Win 10 and NTLite, creating your own ISO then install it with Rufus

3

Win 10 stripped down with Win10Debloater
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

BIG QUESTIONS FOR YOU GUYS, IF YOU DARE TO ANSWER:
What would you recommend or prefer?
If you were to install all over again, like I will, which path will you take?
Do you have any experience with these kind of debloater scripts or programs?
Should I choose NTLite or Windows10Debloater?

[nebelfuerst]

W10 can be setup to feel similar to W7, which I prefere most.
shotdown10 and w10privacy can help to stop all that useless services.
It takes a lot of time to adjust startmenu and desktop.
I also killed defender and stopped all updates.
This way you get a pretty good DAW-machine.
For surfing the ugly side of the web, I'm using linux, as most exploits are targeting windows.

[Nestor]

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Cool, I understand, so you have a double boot for Linux?

[nebelfuerst]

No, i just have much too much PCs beside me

[Nestor]

that is for sure the best possible way, I don't, so have to do my best with it

[astroman]

I got used to browse the internet via iPad only, atm on an Air One (small scratch in the upper left corner, $60).
IOS 12 is the latest version for this device, does most sites but fails on super modern coding and media. (perceived 5%)
It can locate download locations, but to receive I switch to another machine, thus avoid „drive by“ infections on the latter.
The iPad contains only documentation and music apps, nothing personal.

[Nestor]

yeah, that should be really, the path to take, separate machines, as also nebelfuerst said. And it seems to be getting worse by the hour with the war in Ukraine and all.