Windows 11 is fast enough if you... disable a million things on it that >99% of users wouldn't know when/how to, or wouldn't want to. Definitely depressing.
- https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat (recommended elsewhere in this thread)
- https://christitus.com/windows-tool/ (I used this one a couple weeks ago, seems to work well)
But seriously though, learn to fish. The answers aren't hard to find if you look, know what to search for, and are at least somewhat discriminating in your investigation.
I run Win 11 on an old tiny NUC PC that has Windows 10 before - now it does seem faster, is very stable and is not so annoying.
One thing: AFAIK you need to have the Windows 11 Pro version for the best de-bloating results.
Do it all manually if for no other reason than you know all the changes you made and know where all the different settings actually are.
For the record I am also with you that using WinDebloat is not the best way for the simplest reason that it all seems arbitrary.
That, and switch back to the classic GUIs (like with OpenShell) so you don't have to deal with the laggy new UIs.
I simply stayed on Windows 10 and I don’t seem to miss any feature thus far lol
I still haven't used Windows since Win 10 support ended, and have no idea how bad Windows 11 is for people to declare Win 10 "super fast" all over the internet. But I don't have any hope it will accept any setup I want. Win 10 already didn't.
That being said, W10 (or W11 for that matter) will never be as fast a Win 7 was on an SSD in the 2010-2020 era, even with all the hacks and debloat scripts available in many places on the Internet.