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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by mutex_man on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:55PM (#38299346)
My process for a new laptop for the last decade or so has just been to nuke Windows and immediately install Linux. The only machine I own that runs windows is my home gaming PC due to many online/competitive games not supporting proton or other tools.

Thankfully I work for a company who happily allows me to continue this practice with my work laptop. My last and current work laptops have run NixOS and it's been great.

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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by jszymborski on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:06PM (#38299424)
I always deploy the DBAN when I get my hands on a new laptop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik's_Boot_and_Nuke

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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by Sanzig on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:38PM (#38299640)
Somewhat off-topic, but fun fact about Darik of DBAN fame - he landed himself in hot water a few years ago when it was revealed he was a founding member of a white nationalist Canadian political party [1]. The party was later dissolved due to inactivity when its leader went to prison for antisemitic hate crimes [2]

[1] https://www.thespec.com/news/canada/he-says-he-works-securit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Nationalist_Party

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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by jszymborski on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:55AM (#38300077)
I had no idea.

As a fan of DBAN and as a Canadian, I am doubly disappointed.

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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by isoprophlex on Thursday November 16, 2023 @11:36PM (#38299627)
> DBAN can be configured to automatically wipe every hard disk that it sees on a system or entire network of systems, making it very useful for unattended data destruction scenarios.

Bored, belligerent 14 year old me would have loved to get his hands on this...

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Re:No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 com... by jtriangle on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:17AM (#38300521)
Bored 14 year old me basically had this, it was pretty booring. Destroying data mechanically with a sledge hammer was much more fun.
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