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I would much rather follow these steps than spend days tinkering with a Linux distro

Then just install linux, and don’t tinker with it.

The last desktop I bought took under an hour from linux install usb stick boot to steam installing my library of windows games.

Realistically the user has never used gnu/linux nor ever intends to do so.

That’s what I mean though, at this point to get a clean windows experience it’s now a tinkering exercise in turning off hassles and spyware.