installed Win11 on an old laptop and Rufus prompted me to autopatch the installer to remove the Microsoft account and TPM requirements when I wrote the ISO to USB. cool feature. made it a lot less annoying to set up.
@gsuberland would love a more detailed writeup on this, especially the part about "debloater tools". the family and i have to run win11 occasionally and it'd be nice to get rid of the cruft.
@hobbsc search Win11-debloater and win-debloat-tools. both do roughly the same thing but they have slightly different capabilities if you really want to get into the specifics of what you're modifying.
I used custom options on the debloater because I know exactly what features I do and don't want (e.g. this laptop doesn't need or want any of the gaming overlays or Xbox stuff, or Outlook or People, but it does want the Windows Feedback app). Cortana, OneDrive, Search, etc. all got disabled. I've kept the default taskbar stuff for now but I did enable the legacy context menu because it's a 1600x900 display and the Win11 context menu padding is totally excessive at that resolution.
@gsuberland Nice. I tried to run W11 „in the cloud“ (my own infra, proxmox VMs) recently and failed. This sounds like a worthwhile thing to spend time on in order to create an image one can use when one has to. Thanks!
@gsuberland oooh, I've only used the official media creation tool for windows installs. Does Rufus also pull the installer from MS or do you need to bring your own?
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