I'm preparing a (second hand) Dell notebook for my mother, because her (otherwise adequate) machine is not "eligible" to run Windows 11
The process from a fresh Windows 10 installation to even get to the Windows 11 installer is a nightmare.
Despite Microsoft (and Dell's unhelpful bloatware) constantly pointing to "Windows Update", it has no option to initiate the upgrade. I had to really dig to find a manual installer.
I think we've reached the point where installing Linux has become easier.
Not to speak of the extremely slow software updates of Windows, as my guess was "I probably need all the other updates before the option shows up".
The "22H2" update took at least two hours to complete, where in the first hour the only thing I saw was a screen saying "Getting Windows ready. Don't turn off your computer." What does that even mean?
The laptop's spinning fan was the only hint that something was happening at all. Only much later did a progress counter appear. Bizarre.
Really looking forward to disabling all the ads and A"I" in Windows 11, with settings for it in about a dozen places.
Ads seem to be everywhere, even on the lock screen and in the file explorer.
While I was looking for a guide to disabling it all I came across several articles saying that all the ads are slowing down the OS. How do people just accept this?
