Hey y’all
I’m taking a college course which is hell bent that its students use Windows 11. Currently my laptop is still using Windows 10 and if there is no bloatware/AI free way to install Windows 11, I’m just going to bite the bullet and install it the regular way. So if anyone knows of a relatively bloatware free way of installing Windows 11, please let me know.
p.s. For those who would encourage me to use Linux. For my desktop I already use Linux Mint.
This works very well if youre technically inclined. I have to set up windows sometimes for people and this lets me simply select the drive then it goes. No one drive, local accounts, no bloatware, etc. Super nice.
It’s not that difficult, is it?
I mean, it’s not like running a program on an already installed windows, or using the windows 11 installer to install from windows.
Otherwise, it’s the basic steps for installing any OS except for creating the unattended.xml file.
Use the media creation tool to create install media on a USB drive, work through the generator (Google what you need to), drop the resulting XML onto the drive, reboot from USB and install as normal.
I’ve only used it with ventoy. Didn’t know if you could plop it in the root of a normal flash drive that has the windows installer or not.
Not really hard with ventoy either but I don’t like to assume what’s easy for me is easy for someone else.
Yeh, ventoy takes an extra step (but ventoy is itself an extra step): find the iso from a legit source instead of using the media creation tool, install software to edit iso, add unattended.xml to the iso, plop iso on ventoy drive.
Anyone playing around with or working with Linux/windows:
Check out ventoy. I think they’ve solved their issues of binary blobs and it is so useful.
Create a Ventoy usb drive. Drag any and all OS ISOs onto the USB stick. Boot from the USB, choose which ISO to actually boot.
Want to switch flavours of live Linux (or try another installer)? Boot from usb, choose different ISO.
Absolutely fantastic software