privatezilla VS SophiApp

I recently used Privatezilla to disable automatic updates. Not sure if the same approach works on Windows 11, but you might find the relevant registry keys mentioned in the code helpful: https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla/blob/master/src/P...

Privatezilla = Is an open source alternative to ShutUp 10, but be careful what you enable/disable. It has options that will impede functionality.

PrivateZilla will do all of this for you.

For all the things you might indeed want to do there are about a billion open source programs where you at least have the ability to see what they do. (For example.) Arium is a black box, you have no actual idea what they changed and most people just blindly trust that stuff without verifying (which again you don't actually can't do, at least not completely).

https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla is good. There's also ThisIsWin11 by the same dev for Windows 11.

Another (more graphical and customizable) way to debloat your windows is with SophiApp. Which is my preferred way on new installs

this one is open-source https://github.com/Sophia-Community/SophiApp

Besides, the Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility generally eats up too much daylight as the questions and confusion starts rolling in. SophiApp on the other hand, has simplified things quite a bit, as long as we explain what to do and what not to do.

since Ghost Spectre is optimized by itself and the crapware is mostly cut out of it, do 3rd party Windows optimizers/tweakers like SophiApp or ChrisTitusTech make sense at all, or they are already redundant?

We could even perhaps instead create a script or software that strips the official Windows 11 ISO and allows users to choose which apps and features they want to keep or remove. I know there are scripts that exists already like SophiApp or Chris Titus's Debloat Tool but none specifically tweaked for the SteamDeck.

links for lazy: https://github.com/Sophia-Community/SophiApp