[nyanpasu64]

I don't know if this is the successor to https://ameliorated.info/ or an April Fool's joke, but it got pinned in the official Ameliorated Telegram group. I'm running Ameliorated 10 21H1 right now, and when I used to use simplewall it showed that Ameliorated is very quiet in nonconsensual network traffic, which I absolutely do not expect stock Windows 10 to be. (And hopefully the prebuilt Ameliorated ISOs aren't backdoored, though it doesn't seem to have any *obvious* C&C network traffic). Hopefully the new OS builder tool is open-source and can be audited to verify it doesn't inject backdoors.

The downsides are that the current ISO injects the creator's preferences in ways which are difficult to change (lock screen image, not being an admin account, VBScript disabled which breaks Visual Studio Installer, only one user usable, etc.). Additionally, applications (Visual Studio, VS Command Prompt, C# build tools even on Linux, vcpkg, Discord) invariably exfiltrate endless amounts of information, even if you clean up the operating system.