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Atlas
🚀 An open and lightweight modification to Windows, designed to optimize performance, privacy and security.
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dmca
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
I am not a member of the team or anything. I found this on tiktok. But it is open source so I checked the github repo. They do not distribute a pre-activated image, all images need to be activated using a windows key. So in that sense all they are really distributing is a configuration of windows, that is also mostly what their github repo[1] is. But I see the issue there too as I don't think even sharing unactivated windows is allowed. But worst comes to worst, they can prepare instructions on how to install their stuff with an image downloaded from microsoft website. They are not writing a new windows, its more like they are figuring out what bloat is there in windows and removing it.
[1] https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas
Might be thinking of Ninjutsu OS, which got a DMCA takedown in 2020 for distributing modified Windows installation ISOs "that heavily modify Windows 10 with a huge number of tweaks, mods and extra tools" for pentesting:
https://torrentfreak.com/removing-annoying-windows-10-featur...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486887
Complaint text: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/e6911fbf79c67c6f9e834c...
Custom Windows ISOs for gaming aren't new, they just don't surface into the mainstream that often because they mostly distribute through word of mouth, these days mostly via Discord, YouTube, and Tiktok.[1] One such ISO, EVA, was made by one of the AtlasOS contributors.[2]
Though EVA raises another problem with this whole trend of ISO distributions over distributing the tweaks and install steps — it's trivial for a malicious actor to impersonate any of them and distribute a build full of exploits:
> The custom ISO from the previous project is discontinued so please do not ask for it as it has been recreated with malware.
The social, and typically decentralized, nature of the distribution means the only way to know a legit build is to already be inside the community distributing them. If you're not in the community and get hacked, nobody cares anyway.
[1]: Several channels offer roundups and reviews of different ISOs with links buried in video descriptions or subtitles, such as https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSyKK_dtmNzCyp0O8TLVHAQ
[2]: https://github.com/amitxv/EVA