• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Nah, it isn’t optimistic.

    If you install Windows enough, you just get yourself an install script that disables all the things you don’t want.

    Running that script takes less than 10 minutes. I know because I use it often.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Thats assuming you already regularly install Windows, which most don’t. It should be the median install, by a normal user. In the same way, I wouldn’t count the experience of a veteran distro-hopper as the standard for setup time on Linux.

      To find and quickly vet a cleanup script on Windows, I’d say half an hour to an hour is a fair estimate, esspecially given that there are a lot of fake or outdated ones out there. On top of that, there a bunch of other settings these scripts often ignore, like web search in start, so I’d say up to another half hour for that is reasonable, esspecially if you weren’t thorough when searching for your initial script.