Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

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[MekkelRichards]

My suggestion for everyone's personal Win11 PC is to do the following:

• Setup a local account
• Run this script to remove all of the bloat: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
• Disable S0 sleep (enable the old style S3 instead)

This will more or less take you back to the Win10 experience and strip down the UI to the basics. Honestly, there are even more things you can do after that if you want to be even more minimal like reducing the right-click options, disabling services etc, but that's for the dedicated.

MacOS is just as bad these days. There are so many annoying things you have to disable to have a decent & simplistic UI. This is just software enshittification. For now, there are still ways to get around it, but I envision in the future, there really won't be.