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Bye bye edge (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] Macros@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For me the 30 minutes to install is about right. After that I have usable Linux and an unusable Windows.

To get Windows to the same state:

  • Add 5 Minutes for clicking trough the "Do you want to enable handwriting? ((( We just allow ourselves to collect samples of everything you write to "improve our recognition engine" )))
  • Add 20-30 minutes of security updates (thankfully it got much faster with SSDs, before it could have been hours)
  • Add 20-30 minutes of installing necessary software like an office suite, PDF Reader with basic functionality, 7zip. This is only 30 minutes because I spent hours automating the downloads and installs trough scripts.
  • If it is my system or a company system: Add 20 minutes to go trough the settings of Win10Privacy to at least reduce the phoning home and to enable some necessary settings for working with the system like "Don't restart at random times"
  • Add 10 Minutes to remove the installed bloatware like People, Windows Maps, Windows Experience Host, ...

In summary:
Linux requires 5 minutes attention and is ready after 30min.
Windows requires 40 minutes of attention and is somewhat ready after 2h30min. Even if I skip the privacy stuff its still at about 1h20min.

To be fair: On Windows and Linux I immediately install ublock to Firefox afterwards, on Linux I run a single apt command to install some more niche software which takes about 3 minutes on a fast network connection.

[โ€“] danque@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sorry but you are just cherry picking. I'm not going into detail, but it sounds more like you have no knowledge on windows then you do. There are many ways to shorten installs for programs, those are not windows system and can be removed from your time, same for win10privacy, same for the 'bloatware'. In all that leaves 30 min install and 30 mins of security 'in the background' still 30min.