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I want to get off Mr. Gates' wild ride. Obviously I want telemetry gone, and I can probably figure that out myself. A brief search on how to get rid of Cortana is making me think I'm in for some bullshit. What should my checklist be for settings to change and stuff to get rid of?

I want to get off Mr. Gates' wild ride. Obviously I want telemetry gone, and I can probably figure that out myself. A brief search on how to get rid of Cortana is making me think I'm in for some bullshit. What should my checklist be for settings to change and stuff to get rid of?

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[–] registereduser 4 points (+4|-0)
[–] PMYA [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

The laptop isn't for me, it's for my little brother and will mostly be used for gaming, so linux isn't an option unfortunately.

[–] registereduser 0 points (+0|-0)

I'm no gamer, but they say gaming in Linux has come a long way since steam entered the picture. Linux Mint or similar might actually be a good option.

Personally I think PC's suck for gaming, give me a game console. Apparently that view is sacrilege to gamers though.

[–] PMYA [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

It is better than it was, but is still a pain in the arse. Plus I don't think I have the patience to teach a kid how to use Debian.

PC is just way easier. I have a frontend set up with emulators for 20+ consoles and tens of thousands of games. My controllers are all automatically mapped to the consoles as soon as they are plugged in. It took a long time to pull it all together but it is so worth it.

[–] Polsaker 4 points (+4|-0)

Not long ago someone posted a link to this site which might be worth trying out.

[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I would actually use this, but I'm not familiar with Clonezilla. As it is a Christmas present, I'd rather not take the risk in case I irreversibly fuck up. (I say, as I fuck around with the registry).

I'm in the exact same position. A family member is getting a laptop for Christmas and I've been asked to get it setup.
I'm considering giving this a try. If I fuck it up.. whatever, you get what you pay for, and I'm not getting paid.
I can always reinstall using the infected version.

I don't expect that the type of changes they made would significantly threaten the hardware.
I have managed to repeatably 'break' every computer I've ever set hands on. So I've gotten good at repairing them.
I (almost) always get them running again.