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so here's the situation you've been concerned about Windows 10's

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privacy or lack thereof for a while now but

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while you've tried Linux you just can't

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make the jump maybe some software you need won't run properly or maybe you're

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just a fan of Windows other than the privacy problems what can you do

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why not ameliorate it yes my friends you can completely fix

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the problems with Windows 10 and remove the unnecessary garbage that weighs it

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down all by yourself so let's see how it's done

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and what cost it comes at

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but first let's see how much our sponsor costs glasswire is the tool that shows

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suspicious activity get 25 off using offer code Linus at the link below

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what does ameliorate mean anyway well according to the dictionary it's a verb

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meaning to make something bad or unsatisfactory better and that certainly

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seems to be the aim for Windows 10 ameliorated edition a small project

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that's actually been around since all the way back in 2017. now not a whole

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lot of information is available surrounding who is actually behind it

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but some old links point to actrons a

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90s kid who specifically calls out technology social science philosophy

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psychology and neurology film and anime analysis and cringe

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as their topics of interest ameliorated edition seems to be an

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offshoot of their Windows 10 install script which originally merely disabled

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things like Windows update and made adjustments to Windows explorer

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as newer Windows builds came out though with more deeply integrated telemetry a

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more direct approach was necessary to stop Windows from bloody phoning home

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and giving them all my information ameliorated edition straight up removes

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Windows update cortana activation

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microsoft edge Windows media player and all apex uwp applications from the

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install not disabled removed no longer present what that

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means is there's a total size reduction of roughly two gigs

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now of course removing such

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deeply rooted components requires the

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introduction of replacements in certain cases killing cortana for example

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cripples the start menu and especially Windows search so classic shell is used

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as a replacement and there's more that you'll have to give up too directx 12 may not be fully

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supported due to Windows update not being a thing and of course you're stuck

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without automatic updates in fact the update process itself is a bit of a bear

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that requires you to disconnect from the internet

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reactivate Windows update temporarily and so on and so forth suffice to say

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while this version of Windows is focused on privacy

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it's a little lighter on security though as the website claims

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most of the commonly exploitable applications have been removed anyway so

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that point may be less important than you might think but enough talk why

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don't we take a look for ourselves and see what else we're giving up in the

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name of improved privacy the first thing

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i notice is that gone is Windows mail

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who uses Windows mail like

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how crazy do you have to be to not just use a web browser for your mail like

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okay boomer enjoy your outlook so no Windows mail no

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Windows store and no microsoft edge all we've got down

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here is file explorer that's it actually i'm

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noticing some more changes now too where's all the where's all the drop

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downs for file explorer this feels like it's going to be very very different

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also we've got the classic Windows vista and 7 style start menu and of course

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because there's no edge Anthony has helpfully thrown a firefox uh shortcut

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on the desktop actually the default is duckduckgo really yes is that the

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firefox default or is that Windows 10 ameliorated edition no that's an

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ameliorated edition thing actually firefox as well as thunderbird uh

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only office and vlc media player were all pre-installed by the operating

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system i've never heard of only office apparently it's a fork of liber office

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huh it's very microsoft office looking let's try

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and find some tech tips here Linus tech tips wow what's what's my

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amazon page this is a secondhand titan x

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okay we need to update this Colton i'm here what's up oh wow you're there

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was so cool can i summon people just by like

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saying their names oh ltdstore.com

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hey this is a sweet shirt by the way guys okay what else can we try here okay

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so where are where's my file drop down this is a modification to Windows

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explorer called i think old explorer that kind of restores the

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Windows 7 style of Windows explorer so it doesn't have the

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traditional ribbon bar it doesn't have any of the other stuff it's just all

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basically rewritten and there's actually a config

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file you can change to customize it yourself i used it for a little while

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just kind of out of curiosity it's just a preference thing i feel but they used

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it here because some of the changes that they made to Windows

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also affected explorer so they had to use old explorer to kind of patch it up

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well i can tell you now there's only one thing that i would care about them

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fixing and that's if i search for something

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and i go to this folder when i click up folder

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you bastards that's not what i want i

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want it to go up a folder if i wanted to go back to the previous page i would

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press back up folder means up one folder

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in the directory structure so this looks like the horrible Windows

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10 type settings menu except there's even less stuff in here like what's up

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with that well a lot of it is stuff that was tied in with that telemetry stuff so Windows

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update uh gaming like the xbox stuff

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that was tied in with with the telemetry and the phoning home

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so pretty much anything that

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qualifies with that would also

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be cut can i even set a screen saver

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i think so it's under display isn't it

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i don't know is that wait here it is here it is i got it i got it so you

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can't search for it i guess that would probably be because

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they gutted the regular search as well

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yeah without cortana then Windows search kind of just

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dies huh i actually didn't know that this bubble screensaver was still built into

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Windows this is a Windows vista classic right here this was

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so cool at the time ooh 3d acceleration on the desktop

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now it looks kind of faked actually i just want to watch these bubbles for

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days we've evolved past screen savers at this point as a species this is weird too

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Windows tab doesn't cycle through things

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for whatever reason alt tab does but why doesn't Windows tab

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okay well that's cool i guess that's fine

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i haven't really done any benchmarking but it does seem to be a lot snappier

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than uh like it should like a standard Windows 10 install would be i mean the

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start menu sure opens right away which is pretty nice but i mean how bad is

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this search so let's search for like counter strike

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hole that's rough not being able to find

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something that is literally a shortcut on the desktop

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is terrible no worse than the built-in one in Windows 10 mind you i think it is

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possible to set the search folders for uh classic sheller i guess it's called

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open shell now so if you right click on the start menu

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go to settings you can kind of configure everything there but by default i think

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it's not set up to do that it's just for the start menu itself got it okay search

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the internet search programs and settings search files it is set to search

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everything sir oh well i've got uh

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i've got no excuses for it then so what uh what else can we try here i

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mean like well a game will run fine right like let's

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play doom i mean doom should run

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a default password why would that be because the user account that you're

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logged into right now is straight up a user it's not an

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administrator why you know you're no longer getting the security patches right most security

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vulnerabilities happen because users are administrators right and there's really

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no compelling reason to be an administrator outside of just installing

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programs and if you know the administrative password then you can just put it in anytime you need to do

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that kind of like you would on a mac yeah i should just switch to mac between

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spotlight and just finder wasn't so bad i'd consider it

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there's uh alternatives you can get pathfinder is one oh okay it's uh it's

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paid software though but it's actually pretty decent everything paid on mac

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yeah because you can afford it you bought a mac

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all right yeah we're running at like 90 FPS or whatever yeah it's totally fine

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ultra nightmare

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take that monsters why don't you try a directx 12 game

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oh well i guess that's probably not gonna work then hey um okay what's uh

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good night i've got shadow of the tomb raider on there oh yeah that'll do it oh

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weird there's no there's no system tray pop up that might

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just be an artifact of classic shell i'm not entirely sure it's been a hot minute

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but it could also be that we don't have any

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like hidden icons at all so i can't find any way to hide them i'm in the settings

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now and it's just nope you just relocate them even the relocation animations are

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slightly different so you might be right it might just be a classic shell thing

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let's play some shadow of the tomb raider directx 12.

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here we go boys Windows update affect that

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apparently there's extensions to directx 12 that come down from Windows update

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from time to time so the idea is if you've got a game that

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uses an extension that you don't have then when the directx 12 just won't work

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properly well shadow of the tomb raider is a bit of an older game and

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it seems to be working properly at least in the menu which

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is rendered in engines so that would lead me to believe that it's going to

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run okay so officially

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directx 12 is a no-go but unofficially if you try it on a

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game-by-game basis it might actually work just fine then yeah you're not

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supposed to stand in here but i like it new task managers here that's nice to

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see got your GPU usage and all that good stuff although i don't see temps in here

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yet so this is like at least one iteration back it's actually based on

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Windows 10 1903. got it

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it should be possible to do it with 1909 but the official images well official

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images are 1903. okay you might notice down in the bottom right corner that

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you've got an internet as disconnected icon oh i do

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yes and that's because Windows can't know that i have an internet connection

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right because it's not phoning home it can't

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got it so it only knows that you have local connectivity

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interesting so even though all the telemetry stuff

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has supposedly been removed we still actually need to fool Windows

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into thinking that it it has no reason to even use it

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because i have no internet connection yeah oh creative cloud probably won't know i

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have an internet connection either yeah

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oh i bet there's gonna be lots of stuff

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that kind of glitches out because it thinks you have no internet connection

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because they can't ping their server they can't phone home so it turns off telemetry for other

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applications as well i think adobe is one of those

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applications that hooks into Windows API for that and the API itself has been

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removed i open up creative cloud desktop it goes ooh you got no internet

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connection can't do stuff by the way we've got a new version available go

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ahead and update we'll see if it gets it let's see if you guys get a water bottle

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on lttstore.com okay this is not going to finish it's

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been sitting here forever now i take back everything i said about quality adobe software okay so with that closed

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out we've got svc host

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like task manager there's wow there's really not a lot in

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here then yeah and in keeping with the spirit of the operating system i used

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envy clean stall to install the NVIDIA driver as well so we only have the bare

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minimum for that as well wow i guess that explains why it just

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feels so snappy like you know how sometimes even on a fast machine you'll

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go to open local disk c and it'll take like

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10 or 15 seconds for no apparent reason

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yeah because it's got to like update some log in the background that's got to

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go off to microsoft and all that kind of crap it makes you wonder how much stuff

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is actually just kind of caked on in there in the like vanilla version of

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Windows you know no kidding like even when it does need a second to open up

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and populate a directory list it's a second not 10 seconds yeah

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accessing uh the vault or any of our

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other servers usually takes like a

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long time this is great though like i'm in bench

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den right now and it's responsive enough considering that it's

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running on spinning rust and running over a gigabit connection yeah

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hey ms paint's still here ms paint is not spyware i knew i knew

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you were good all along this is pretty cool you get all the same

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benefits that you would from an officially available slimmed down

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version of Windows like an embedded version which we've actually talked

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about before when we did a video on Windows 9

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plus more since all the telemetry is stripped out but

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legally speaking this is all

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something of a gray area so to speak

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now according to the website the project is perfectly legal based on eu directive

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2009 24 which they say gives them a pass

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on interoperability grounds by downloading images with telemetry

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including activation removed from the website itself though you are

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essentially committing piracy

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however it is possible to do this legally if you

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modify a Windows image for yourself and they've got full documentation on the

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process available along with a repository of open source scripts that

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they use so supposedly you with your

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Windows license and a download of Windows 10 1909 should be able to do it

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for yourself although the pre-built images are all based on 1903. legality

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aside the utility of a Windows image like this is

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pretty great for someone who's looking to run it in a vm on a Linux machine for

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example for everyday use

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i don't know if you don't need some of the things

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that we found didn't work quite right and if you don't mind jumping through

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some hoops whenever you want to update or run something that needs

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administrator permissions then sure otherwise honestly our

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better recommendations are to just give in and run Windows

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or just run Linux if you want privacy

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without the hassle speaking of no hassle in your privacy

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