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If I was a malicious actor and I saw how vehemently people defended the usage of random scripts that claim to debloat Windows, MAN!
Some of them deactivate Windows Defender... UAC... It would be so easy as a malicious actor to get in on this recent trend...
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
Whatever OS you're on, don't run random scripts without reading and understanding them lol.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
When I was still using Win10 I used this to debloat it with the default preset.
https://ameliorated.io/
I thankfully don't need Windows anymore, cuz it just gets worse with every major release.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
AME is legit and all their stuff is open source. Would recommend if you have to use Windows.
@dushman I don't recommend running debloat scripts cause 90% of what people say about windows bloat know nothing about how services work
@dushman also this wasn't an invitation for you to give me your software recommendations.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
I'm not forcing you to use it. 
Maybe someone will see it and find it useful.
@dushman Unsolicited software advice is actually one of my biggest pet peeves. Please delete it.
Why would you even think that a post being critical about Windows Debloat Scripts would solicit "Hey, this script is good tho I promise!"
It's like selling snake oil to someone trying to raise awareness of the pseudoscience behind snake oil.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
Hmm? It's not snake oil though. Modern Windows has a ton of useless things and telemetry running out of the box. This worked best at reducing idle resource usage from my own experience.
@dushman telemetry sucks but you don't really know how "useless" stuff is until you have something that relies on it as a dependency hangs your entire system.
It doesn't really reduce idle resources, cause if you have a computer that was made with competent components in the last 10 years you should be more than fine.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
I mean the home editions have fucking Candy Crush preinstalled. Stuff like Edge, windows media player, groove or phone sync was useless to me cuz I never wanted to use them in the first place. Modern Windows absolutely has a bunch of useless software out of the box.
@dushman they don't run unless you launch them, I don't know how you can think that they impact idle resource usage unless you're equivocating two things that have no correlation
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
For example Edge runs background services out of the box lol
@dushman I don't think that's true
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
I absolutely remember that being the case. I don't have Windows installed anywhere rn though.
@Zyro1331@wolfdo.gg @ioletsgo@wetdry.world
It is on Win11 yeah. Even on 10 Edge has background services for some reason though.
@ioletsgo @dushman Honestly I'd love to give Edge a spin because of how well it integrates with Windows, but if it wasn't so naggy and popup ridden, I just can't use it daily. That's already coming from someone who doesn't care much about their privacy and the other weird goofball things with edge.
KDE Plasma is an excellent example of browser integration done correctly, where it just kinda works with everything and dances with the system no matter what browser you're using. (Though this ain't a KDE is better than Windows situation, honestly everyone's got their problems when I deal with three operating systems every day lmao)
@Hayden@wolfdo.gg @Zyro1331@wolfdo.gg
Yeah it would, I'm pretty sure though you could use open shell to fix that. Which I'm pretty sure is what AME does on 11 but I haven't tried. I installed AME on 10 where removing Edge doesn't really break anything.
@Hayden@wolfdo.gg @Zyro1331@wolfdo.gg
there are even examples of third party apps that use Edge Webview for drawing their interfaceAw hell naw Windows really has fallen off.
@affine@yourwalls.today @Zyro1331@wolfdo.gg @Hayden@wolfdo.gg
Literally like Electron but even worse
@dushman "I don't like this thing + my computer now runs slow, it must be the thing I don't like!"
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
On my hardware it wasn't slow even out of the box but I'd rather have more resources freed up for heavy things I might need to do
@dushman oh you're just a dumbass.
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
How is keeping your system lean a dumb thing? I do the same thing on my Linux setup and it's fast as fuck.
@dushman don't touch shit and don't run shit you don't know. As a security minded individual, Debloating Windows is one of the dumbest fucking things you can do.
If you care so much about bloat, genuinely Linux is the better option for you. I care very little about "bloat" and I even make fun of people who claim any sort of user enhancement they dislike as bloat yet I still use Linux on a daily basis.
And I enjoy my experience on Linux cause I don't give a shit about bloat.
@dushman literally yesterday I made an entire openbox setup with 300 total packages just to make fun of this dumb as rocks sentiment that shit needs to be lean to be good.
If you care so much about bloat, genuinely Linux is the better option for you.Yeah it absolutely is. I just had to use Windows before for things I couldn't get to run under Wine.
@dushman IF YOU'RE FAILING TO GET SHIT RUNNING UNDER WINE, DEBLOATING WINDOWS LIKELY WOULD ONLY HURT YOUR CAPABILITIES TO RUN IT IN WINDOWS YOU DUMB FUCK
@ioletsgo@wetdry.world
I have plenty of resources free if I need to say compile something.
@dushman yeah but compiling on windows is rather aids for the end user so nobody is gonna do it except for people who use Linux.