I DO own legit Win 10 & Win 11 (which I only use either if I have to, otherwise Linux).
(BTW, I bought both for about $30 each through Kinguin; also bought MS Office 2021 (the last one that you can keep without having to “rent” it) for $29 at Kinguin. Totally legal.)
But, I use some tools to get all of the bad stuff out of the installation ‘disk’ and remake the install ISO.
Have even been able to eliminate Edge (which is not recommended), and the telemetry (call home).
So, the install ends up being bare bones with whatever drivers and dlls I need for whatever application/program/game I have to run in WinBlows. (90% of everything DOES work on Linux though. I’ve even been able to install Photoshop (which I prefer over GiMP) & MS Office, which I prefer over LibreOffice or OpenOffice.)
dayglored, I remember messing with windows 1 -> 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 3.11...
I would last a week, or so, then go back to DOS, lol.
After 3 or 4 months, would try Windows again, then go back to DOS.
The only thing I really didn’t like about DOS, at the time, was having to figure out which MEM floppy to boot with (depending on what I was going to use it for).
How are you running photoshop on Linux? With vm? I tried running it in vm and in another Linux program which emulates windows , wine I think it was? They both changed some things in photoshop that caused me to not like how they handled, and my vid card wouldn’t work with it, so it limited the program. I use another program, heavy on video card, a painting program called rebelle- great program, but will really work,a video card. Not sure I could get it to work in a vm
Oh, and wanna sell a copy of your tweaked/much Improved iso for win 10? (Not sure my computer can run 11)
How did you redo the ISO for Windows 11? I have bypassed the whole Microsoft account and forced a local install for Windows 11 Home, but it was a pain, along with dealing with all the privacy crud. I would love to have a clean ISO, though.