Over the last 4 months I’ve been fiddling around now and then with debian 10 stable on another machine to assess whether to install as a dual boot with Windows 7 and am finding the maintenance using even just basic terminal and apt/aptitude is of negligible difficulty and surprisingly so. Presumably this unending distraction spate of “change” is connected somehow with advertising and/or data gathering, not that I see the connection if any. Is there a roadmap or similar document somewhere that explains exactly what the intended objective and purpose of these constant “updates” to and editions, flavours etc etc of Windows 10 might be? Running 10 just seems to be a constant treadmill of releases and issues requiring attention a time sink. it will remain the same, so fiddling with it is completely pointless.
But even if you remove all the bloat or telemetry from it, on a weak machine, performance won’t increase at all for neither Windows 10 or programs/games you want to run. Even low budget brand new PCs and laptops have the processing power to handle Windows 10 with all its bloat perfectly fine and it works snappy and fast. Just leave Windows 10 as it is and forget about the things that you don’t use. The only Windows 10 modern app that I use is the Calculator and that’s probably 3-4 times a week and it doesn’t even bother me anymore how gigantic it is compared to the old Calculator. I have unpinned all the things I don’t need from both the Taskbar and Start Menu, like MS Store, Edge, Outlook and everything else and I don’t use them at all and have completely forgotten about them. Right now I’ve adopted the philosophy of leaving things as they are and just going with the flow. I also used to be a control freak, trying to set up Windows 10 the way I want it, disable and delete whatever I don’t want and many times ended up with a broken or barely functioning Windows 10 that I would later have to reinstall. XP, Vista and 7 all came with lots of programs nobody really used, but nobody was freaking out and trying to remove evertything. It was proven that even as far back as Windows XP, there was still telemetry in it, just nobody cared about it, in Windows 7 again nobody cared about it. To be honest, back when I was using Windows XP, or Vista or 7, I don’t remember anyone freaking out over bloated, useless features or telemetry. At that point, better start using Linux and force and fiddle with it to make it work with the programs and games you need, it will be a lot easier.
And end up with a bare-bones OS that can barely function, let alone do things like running special software or playing games.
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