This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

It's free and open-source.

I went off the official path and still landed on a Windows install I’d recommend.

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We're back to settle what has become an age-old debate: does Windows 11 or Windows 10 deliver better gaming performance? Microsoft has been rolling out Windows 11 25H2 for the past few months, an ...