Puhlease… just use shutup10 and some debloating script easily found on GitHub. It’s mostly harmless. And it could be a fun weekend project to install a Rufus tampered Win11 ISO. And when WU reenables some sort of privacy and/or advertising wrecking feature you run shutup10 again which will tell you which changes MS decided to make on your behalf so you can toggle them back again. Finally, if you can spare some computer cycles, run a docker-pihole and block those sweet sweet ms-events IPs for fun and profit.
That sounds like a lot of hassle. It used to be Linux that you had to tinker with but nowadays you can find distros that are easier to setup (Zorin). I installed it for my parents and they like it more than new version of Windows. I have some qualms about MacOS but if you have the money it's much saner experience. The only reason to run Win nowadays is gaming.
I was never some Unix snob, up until Win 7 I was a happy camper. Today I would not accept a job that would force me to work on Win machine.
