They work in the states as well. It's ridiculous that you have to run a third party app to make your OS usable out of the box, but it did work, and I haven't even had much trouble with settings flipped back with updates so far.

Which ones do you recommend?

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I don’t see any of those mentioning disabling of MSN content in the Start menu. In fact, at least one of them mentions only Windows 10 and not 11.

I used ThisIsWin11, found on github by builtbybel.

Word to the wise: "debloating" windows 10/11 does not make it stop collecting data on you and sending it to all Jedi Blue II participants. It just hides annoyances. If you are interested in a lean OS which you actually have control over, consider checking out GNU/Linux.

I am on a pretty vanilla Ubuntu/Gnu install and don't miss a thing. Zoom works, Google Docs works, Telegram/Slack/Discord works. Plus the native python integration is a+++

I want to but my main computer needs a lot of graphics/animation/design programs that only have a real alternative on Windows. Linux never had strong graphical contenders, for professionals at least. It’s in improving, Blender and Godot are great.

I do have a Pi, so technically I am halfway into Linux ;)

If you select the locale "English (Europe)" when installing Windows, it doesn't add bloatware. I think that's because they specify which bloatware to include depending on the country, and it's not defined for that locale. You also get a skippable error during installation because the installer doesn't have that locale defined for some message.

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-ooberegion-bloatware.htm...