One “simple trick” and your next Windows install will be blissfully free of bloatware.

Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country.

Then let the installer do its thing. Eventually, you will see a window with an ice cream cone on the floor with the words “Something went wrong” and the error message “OOBEREGION.” This cryptic message means that the “out of box experience” (OOBE) didn’t launch because it didn’t know which region to launch.

Click Skip, though, and Windows will install just fine. You won’t be prompted to buy Microsoft 365, you won’t be prompted to pay for a OneDrive subscription, and your Start menu won’t be cluttered with apps.

  • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3823·
    1 year ago

    Download Rufus.

    Download Pop! OS

    Create USB installer.

    Install Pop! OS

    There you go.

    • 13617@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      insert specific versions of missing dependencies here for whatever program you try to run

    • Case@unilem.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I had an issue switching away from Pop!, and it may have been a one off, but when I tried to install a different distro, and it wound up screwing up my boot partition to the point the easiest thing was just to run a live distro, pop open parted, and wipe from there before I could install a different distro.

      Mostly mentioning it because it was annoying to figure out and remedy - the remedy was annoying because I only had one flash drive so I had to wipe what I wanted to install, and just wasting time regarding that.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The gamer variant you’re talking about is Nobara.

        Which is pretty good.

        I switched to it about a month ago, reminds me of what Ubuntu used to be with its easy to use-ness

      • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, there’s a half dozen that are just as good as Fedora out of the box, and dozens that are just as capable once broken in.

          • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Dude what are you talking about? Are you running something super specialized or old, wacky hardware? Trying to use Wayland with an Nvidia GPU? I’d gladly put my Pop system up against any Fedora system and I wouldn’t have a hiccup.

      • the_q@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        It is? Hmm I’ve not had a single issue with it in years. It gets regular updates, granted it’s not on the current Ubuntu version, but out of date it is not. What problems does it have?

        Use what you want, but making the declaration that Fedora is the distro to go with is a stretch.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Wow you must really struggle with basic day to day stuff then

        What a bizarre flex lmao

        You may as well be saying I don’t know how to flush my toilet 😎