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by misswaterfairy 1086 days ago
NTLite is a pretty good tool, still in beta for Windows 11, to strip out all of the cruft Microsoft adds to 'improve' Windows before you install it. If you install NTLite onto a machine with an NTLite built image, it's host update tool will keep checking for, and removing, things Microsoft tries to sneak back in, like Edge.

Although I built my machine for performance - i9-13900K, 64 GB RAM, 2TB boot SSD - Windows is quite performant and barely touches the CPU at idle as it's not trying to process any 'value adds'.