For Linux it’s customization and preferences, for Windows it’s using regedit to completely break your system by removing features the core OS uses for some reason like Cortana/Search and Copilot, etc.
Everything you don’t want is baked in to the core.
one needs third party apps of questionable trustworthiness and even then you can’t definitively verify it isn’t periodically screenshotting everything you do and uploading it with your unique tpm tied to it
It’s unusual that Linux users are so cool with tinkering to get everything exactly how they want. Unless it’s windows. No tinkering for them there.
You cannot tinker windows though.
For Linux it’s customization and preferences, for Windows it’s using regedit to completely break your system by removing features the core OS uses for some reason like Cortana/Search and Copilot, etc.
Everything you don’t want is baked in to the core.
It could have something to do with Microsoft ensuring you cannot tinker with Windows to get everything exactly how you want 🤷♀️
one needs third party apps of questionable trustworthiness and even then you can’t definitively verify it isn’t periodically screenshotting everything you do and uploading it with your unique tpm tied to it