[s900mhz]

For gaming I usually use cachy os but occasionally need windows for certain games and FSR4, I’ve recently have been using those stripped down windows isos. Such as Optimum 11.

So far the experience has been nice, it doesn’t even come with a default browser so it’s pretty stripped down. Note that I only use it for gaming so I’m not sure if it works well as a daily os. Never had it asked me to sign in, even during installation.

https://windowsxlite.com/Optimum11Pro/

[_cenw]

I would not put one of those builds on my network, and I'd also expect this to have very imperfect compatibility (e.g. quite a few games need Edge WebView, and these usually rip it out). And you get maybe 1-2 extra FPS. And Windows 11 LTSC is right there.

[s900mhz]

Oh interesting! I will happily switch to this. I don’t keep up much with the Windows world. I’m not using the stripped windows for performance, I strongly dislike all the unnecessary items that comes bundled. My windows use case is for it to just run games. I don’t want it to do anything else.

Seems like Windows IOT fits the bill though so thanks for sharing!

[blibble]

it's probably less hostile than the official microsoft version

my windows machine is on its own VLAN anyway