Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?

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  • Win11Clean

    An installation guide for Microsoft Windows 11 Professional to remove telemetry, adware and other annoyances.

  • I’ve put a text-based guide out on GitHub for people to follow. It covers both the initial installation, as well as all my post-install recommendations.

    https://github.com/GoofGarage/Win11Clean

    I went with just text, point-and-click directions initially so people can at least intuit how they’d reverse any changes.

    The overwhelming majority of things can be done via the Settings app UI. Some are Local Group Policy settings. There’s a few PowerShell script commands to remove pre-installed packages. There’s only 2 or 3 registry tweaks.

  • ExplorerPatcher

    This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

  • Once you add https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix the start menu / task bar, 100%.

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  • wslg

    Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

  • Apparently, WSLg does away with the need for a separate X server, making things "easy" to use:

    https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

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