IMPORTANT: MAINTAINER NEEDED ASAP!

[adolfintel]

Hello everyone,
I've been maintaining this guide since 2015 when the first version of Windows 10 came out. To be fair, it was already clear back then that Microsoft had decided to drive power users away from Windows, but I liked the OS so I persevered, and tried my best to make it as usable as possible using this guide.
With the release of the 1903 update a few weeks ago, which broke a lot of things on my computer, I just couldn't take it anymore; I'm sorry to let you down but Windows nowadays is as unstable as a crappy arch linux distro, I cannot be productive if the OS keeps breaking with every update.

So that's it, I have decided to quit Windows, and I'm now using Linux (Kubuntu, to be specific) as my main OS for everything except games (for which I'll keep a machine with Windows 10 LTSC, offline). As a result, 1903 will be the last update for this guide unless some good soul wants to take up the task of maintaining this project.

I know there are some skilled users out there who can do it, if you're interested, write me at info@fdossena.com or leave a comment under this issue.

[rugk]

Hehe, great. Maybe you should start your guide/Readme here with a big paragraph on "Consider switching to a different operation system"? 😆

I'd suggest to link to these Linux beginner resources:

• https://computefreely.org/
• https://librehunt.org/
• education: https://linuxjourney.com/
• buy preloaded: https://linuxpreloaded.com/
• for gamers: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6FePZoNgE

[playgithub]

I switched to Linux(Debian) / FreeBSD several times, but switched back to Windows at last, because Windows is much more easy to use. Is it worth to use Windows with some privacy leaking?

For example, if using chome, does M$ know what site I have visited?

[adolfintel]

@playgithub It depends on how much importance you place on your privacy and your data.
If you use Chrome, it shouldn't send anything to Microsoft, but it will send everything to Google, and that's even worse.

[playgithub]

Will Firefox send personal infos to Mozilla?
Maybe I should choose chromium, it doesn't send personal infos, does it?

[adolfintel]

Firefox sends personal information if you have telemetry enabled or if you log in with a firefox account.
Chromium is pretty much the same as regular chrome. Ungoogled-chromium and Iridium are modified to prevent it.

[rugk]

They all send some data, the thing is what they send and whether you can opt-out etc. And whether you can trust/verify what they send. Here Chrome is a proprietary browser, even though it's build on the FLOSS browser Chromium. Firefox is fully open-source though (so you can verify what data it sends) and they have a pretty nice and transparent privacy policy and even feature privacy as their first item on the website.

[rugk]

Anyway, this should not get into a browser discussion. This has nothing to do with this issue or even this repo.

[qwertychouskie]

I switched to Linux(Debian) / FreeBSD several times, but switched back to Windows at last, because Windows is much more easy to use.

There's your problem, Debian and especially *BSD aren't exactly known for their user-friendliness. Try Ubuntu, Xubuntu (my personal fave for day-to-day desktop work), or Mint, you'll get a much better experience.

[bmmcwhirt]

Just a quick note to say thank you for all you have done. I do hope you find a new maintainer as this is very useful. I mostly run Linux myself but at work I maintain the computers for a health company. Since come January we can no longer legally run Windows 7(HIPAA Requires an OS that has security updates) we will be upgrading and all this will come in very handy as we have limited bandwidth and with 200 computers trying to call home that adds up.

Again, thank you for your service all these years.

[adolfintel]

@bmmcwhirt Windows 10 LTSC might be a good option for your company, it comes with no crap preinstalled and once you disable defender and use a firewall it's really not that bad.

[bmmcwhirt]

@bmmcwhirt Windows 10 LTSC might be a good option for your company, it comes with no crap preinstalled and once you disable defender and use a firewall it's really not that bad.

Thanks I will look into that. We normally just get bulk licenses from TechSoup since we are a non-for-profit hospital. I'll see if they offer that at all.

[kophe]

I've been following your efforts for some time now, @adolfintel, and while I'm not as skilled as you, I built an automated script implementing your guide with some other patches, like Win10-Initial-Setup-Script , tron, O&OSU10 and so on.

I keep hopping between Fedora and Solus on my personal notebook, but like @bmmcwhirt, I have to use Windows at my workplace, and LTSC has been our choice since 2016 (LTSB). With this in mind,, I feel like I may contribute with a thing or two on the next updates. Count me in with anything I can help.