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Installing LFS is a ritual, a manifestation of the belief in free software. In order to affirm allegiance to the corporate world, installing Windows 11 with all telemetry enabled and an online account might be more appropriate.

And clicking "buy now" on every ad that shows up during the process

Closest you’ll likely get for that closed source operating system is “Install Windows the Arch Way”: https://christitus.com/install-windows-the-arch-linux-way/

Very nice. A next step might be to strip telemetry and remote control with the Ameliorated project, https://ameliorated.io/

Not as a hands-on project I don't think, for the reasons you listed, but there are books that do explain these things, and are probably the closest to what you want.

For Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/win...

and for Mac/iOS: https://newosxbook.com

Those are official sites, the books themselves can also be found elsewhere if you get my meaning.

Not exactly what you're asking, but you may get much closer by bringing up ReactOS from scratch: https://reactos.org/wiki/Building_ReactOS