My current Windows 10 install is about 3.5 years old, if not older.
I want to reinstall windows just to debloat it I’d do linux but I like to do some gaming with my friends, and those games aren’t on linux for the most part. I at least got Manjaro on my school laptop
I was curious if people have experience with running anything like Tiny1X or similar things as a main OS, or even as a VM. What’s your experience like?
Any downsides or upsides to know about?
I’m happy to hear it all. Just looking for a discussion on it. Or tell me to sacrifice to the blood god and install Gentoo. Anything works 
An OS is there to run the stuff you want. If it can’t and feels limiting, it’s probably not a satisfying experience.
Always use the OS you are more comfortable with. There are workarounds to get the best of both worlds, but for the most part it’s a story of tradeoffs, compromises and a lot of work involved.
If one of the several tuned Windows packages eliminate the stuff you don’t like about Windows, go for it. Never change a running system.
I switched 1.5 years ago and I could never go back to Windows. I hate installing things from websites, stuff installing and appearing I never told it to, things slowing down over time, using BIOS RAID, installing drivers, unchecking all privacy options and finding (hidden) menues, drive letters, NTFS, 90s style menues, laggy mouse,ads, no customization to speak of, stuff in the background doing telemetry, registry, malware,viruses…
These things being faster and using a Gig less memory on boot doesn’t really help me.
Finding a /home isn’t always easy in life. Try out new things and stick to the one that suits your needs.
You always should.
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For what it’s worth, the ‘Tiny’ ISOs should be treated as untrused because you can’t be sure they’re clean. Even if you hear other people saying they’ve had no issues truth is they’re not like open-source linux distors so treat them as such. (Not to mention they break the eula).
(Just because you don’t see the popups doesn’t mean you’re not compromised, it might mean you suck at detecting it.)
You’re better off stripping the bloat post-install, Atlas seems to have its scripts on github so I’d check the scripts first and understand what it does.
That being said there’s multiple debloater scripts out there too like O&O Shutup 10 and Chris Titus’s debloter which might have a broader level of trust at the time of writing.
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Brodie talks about Atlas OS. My brief check on their websites didn’t mention the real impact and how bad of an idea this is. I only saw the marketing buzz words, not the fine print.
Oh boy, I wouldn’t run this for anything connected to the internet. Ripping out everything security for minor gains. Spectre/Meltdown are back, UAC and defender down, and updates disabled all together. You’re basically back to running Win95 in 2023.
This isn’t streamlining or optimizing. That’s removing car doors so you can enter the car more quickly. I’d ship BTRFS/ZFS with this so users can rollback all the infection quickly as restore points also won’t work.
ITS NOT LINUX and that is all some people care about.
BUTT!!! to be fair-ish, linus seems to break linux whenever they let him touch it.
POS 2009 is the pinnacle of operating system development, its all been downhill since.
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I ran tiny10 for a very short time on a weak machine (hp microserver gen7) until I realized how butchered it was, something as simple as getting one of the newer versions of .NET installed was either not possible or so difficult it made me give up.