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Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn't fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like "Let's get everything set up for you", and "Let Cortana help you get things done!".

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or you could have tried Windows 10 AME. It has none of this stuff.

OSes are tools. You should not care. Use the one best for a particular job.

[–] NostraDavid 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That reminded me of TinyXP - a modified version of Windows XP to be like some 100MB install, instead of the typical 2GB of default bloat.

Good shit.

[–] NostraDavid 2 points 9 months ago

Ooooh, there's also nLite, if you wanted to make a custom version for yourself!

Those were fun times!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

nLite, eXPerience, WinPE days were old. AME is not built like that. It is debloated and stripped of components that results in same thing as the custom ISO builds of yesteryear though.