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[–] Andi@feddit.uk 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When choosing the region/language, choose "English (World)". Boom, bloatware be gone.

You can safely change it to your correct region once you've logged in (Note: the Windows Store won't work until you do).

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the Windows Store won’t work until you do

So just never do it. Noted.

[–] Andi@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember some 'core' apps, such as Paint and Calculator are delivered via the Store now too - so they'll also be missing.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just pirate a version of paint

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find a scenario where paint.net doesn't come out on top when compared to the version of paint that ships with Windows and it's free.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

paint opens a bit faster, and often I want to just draw some stupid rectangles with 5 words and 4 arrows real quick and screenshot it and say "look here's the mock-up"

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

Good. Those are easily replaced by FOSS alternatives.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are there laws in England that prevent bloatware?? That sounds like an EU thing, not an English thing. I would think the England install might be even more bloated than the US one.

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Europe has "N" versions of windows that do not have media codecs, and a few basic applications installed (e.g basic video player)

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wish I knew about this a month ago when I installed Windows on an older machine that definitely doesn't need anything but basic stuff.

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry about my shitty wording, none of the thr basic stuff is installed, its basically a version of windows that assumes you are going to install your own version of most basic apps. Basically a media player, (both video and music), voice recording, skype and such are NOT installed.

If youre on a device that needs no major feature updates except security ones, thats ehat the LTSB build is for. Getting one legally is difficult, however...

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I got that. That would have been perfect for my garage computer. A low spec machine that would just be hooked up to my CNC. I don't need voice recording, media player and stuff like that. Bare bones would be perfect for that machine both in SSD space saved and (I assume) aslightly faster since the hardware is a few years old now.

[–] BigVault@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

We have English (United Kingdom) as a localised install.

Not any more bloated then English (US) but if this English (World) install is even cleaner as Andi says, I’ll start using that instead for fresh installs.

Nice Tip.

[–] dlok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Andi@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Because the paid-for "bloat" is per region. If you don't define the region..... taps side of forehead