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TBH I use both windows and Linux since ages and it's Linux that's painless and always works, but my main personal OS is still Windows (10) because I can't get all I need running well (or at all) on Linux.

And yes, the windows updates resettling all these little necessary settings is little infuriating.

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While you should never blindly trust a stranger that suggests you open and admin power shell and enter

  PS C:\Windows\system32> irm "https://christitus.com/win" | iex

it's worth a shot - that downloads the latest stable Chris Titus WinUtil as a tabbed text GUI with easy click options and various recommended setting levels to deal with all of that.

See: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

Chris Titus on his own (and contributors) Util: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuaNw8Tpn7Q

Some third party run through and rave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i43BZyJ4azc

It's all open source powershell scripts from windows insiders that gets heavy eyeballs - fast track installs of common software, easy set update tweaks (eg: only the serious security updates), disable telemetry and AI bloat, etc.

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Thanks a million, bookmarked.