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Programs/Settings I should change to minimize data scraping on Windows 11? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Microsoft surface 7. I spent a bunch of time checking out forums and such. It looks like Arch supports it, I think, and you can get it to work on Ubuntu but a bunch of stuff does not work for it. The keyboard (I think), Bluetooth, volume. I am not computer savvy anymore so I don't wanna fuck with Arch. I don't even use the touch screen so I could care less about that but keyboard usage would be nice lol.

Someone in another post suggested trying puppy Linux but I havent seen any documentation anywhere saying that my laptop would support it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn yea tricky, looks like mainline linux patches only landed a few months ago so it'll probably be a while until there's actually good distro support.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

will be waiting impatiently for it to roll out. I know it's all volunteer based, so I am grateful for folks who are working on it at all. I also stupidly bought a new oneplus phone, not realizing how much time it takes to roll out new operating systems and such. I was so stoked to switch to LineageOS or whatever but alas, I am stuck with Google for a while