Optimize-Offline VS Windows10Debloater

Not OP but there are many projects along those lines, eg. https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline/

LTSC is the easy way for a hassle-free experience, and I don't really mean that in a bad way. It does the job, but if you want a better approach (assuming you know what you're doing), a stripped version of normal Windows (preferably Professional version) is better. I have used both and I prefer having my Windows ISOs modified by Optimize-Offline.

https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline is free

If you want to be thorough, I recommend Optimize-Offline. Been using this to reinstall my system every now and then and for me, it completely removes the annoying parts of Windows 10.

If you're more experienced, best what you can do is remove all useless things (programs, parts of system) and make all tweaks (UI, privacy..) directly in ISO before installation. There are scripts, for example https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline and good resource for advanced guides is mydigitallife forum.

AME had been discontinued due to a takedown. You can still get the torrent, if someone is still seeding it, but files on official site had been taken down. Might wanna check out optimize-offline instead.

Stuff has been uninstalled from Settings and Control Panel and CTT's Utility (to enable some settings I would've enabled through Terminal commands already) and Sycnex's Debloater (to uninstall some apps) have been used. It's nothing major as I only uninstalled apps I could download from the store if necessary and made sure not to delete any major system components except Edge maybe. I have read through every menu and setting any of these utilities has brought up thoroughly to ensure I didn't do so. I believe I did my research before enabling/disabling a setting.

I've used this script for every new install of Windows and it makes the experience quite a bit better: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater .

17k stars on GitHub so lots of people agree.

if you wanna go even further in getting the most out of your laptop you can use this debloating tool to get rid of the extra stuff Microsoft puts into windows that youll never use.