I’ve uninstalled almost everything from MS on my Win 11 and I don’t miss any of it. No more Outlook. No MS Office. No Edge, No OneDrive, No Copilot. And I miss none of it!
You still need to replace Notapad with Notepad++
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AFAIK Notepad is not providing feedback to MS marketing and it’s AI hungry infrastructure. But Word however…
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I had an 2012 MacBook Air. I felt terrible about throwing it out so I bought a new battery for 40 francs and spent the weekend putting the battery in, then loading up Mint. Actually I started with Elementary but it wasn’t very good. Now I have Mint in and decent battery life. I’m very happy to have given the machine a second life. I really like Mint. Easy to get around and no issues with drivers etc. My main windows laptop is gathering dust at the moment.
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I’ve moved to an android tablet, using termux and termux-x11. I can use it with extenal BT keyboard with mouse, or by touch. The app allows to turn off the android on-screen keyboard which is good as the Linux onboard keyboard is much better. It’s a low power machine but more than enough for office type work and it’s very portable. I really enjoy more the linux desktop on the go rather than mobile os. Video is not accelerated, but for YT you can switch to native android app. Though I recommend at least 12" for it. In theory I could also setup it on my phone, but a traditional desktop with windows would be an overkill for such small display.
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Where exactly did you find this? Path?
And thinking we’re talking windows, isn’t just trusting ‘adjust for best performance’ a bit dangerous?
I mean in your case where you just wanted to get the speed I’m sure it’s fine. But I wonder if windows and I have the same understanding of “best performance”, experience lets me doubt that very much.
For some stuff. But Microsoft have been pushing putting large NPUs into the chip, which IMO are pretty useless. I’d rather they have used the space for other features that would have enhanced performance that I would actually use.
Now we all have to pay a Microsoft tax on AI enabled processors that we buy.
Open settings and search for ‘performance’. Look for ‘adjust the appearence and performance of windows’. There are some tweaking options in there.
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Better yet uninstall or disable anything that sends feedback to MS
I agree. As a button “best performance” is probably from windows point of view. 
Keep in mind. MS is now an advertising business.
So get rid of that Bing search, throw out your x box and uninstall MSN.
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I’ve just dusted off an old iMac Core 2Duo that was sat in my loft. I’ve installed MX Linux (32 bit) and apart from bluetooth issues it’s working like a dream. I’m using it right now. I think I’ve become addicted to installing linux on apple machines. I’m also increasingly annoyed by the fact that apple basically makes it’s old hardware unusable.
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I know absolutely nothing about apple but don’t you need a bluetooth-USB-Dongle for old devices and all is well? (And download a driver to some very old ones).
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Yes I tried everything else and will go for a dongle. Definitely the best option - this machine is almost 10 years old
10 franc Bluetooth USB dongle did the trick
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BT and camera required using apple firmware blob, so you might find the open source driver with instructions how to extract the blob from macos on github, assuming you still have macos on your disk. The latest is the most annoying to discover so most people learn about it too late and skip it entirely
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If you still have Windows 10 than sign up for ESU (Extended Security Updates) is recommended before Oct. 24th..
Absolutely not needed for Mac OS updates. They have been and will always be free - for everyone.
Even Apple hardware sooner or later is no longer updated. Considering that my 10+ year old laptops are still getting updated till now, for free, by MS is truly amazing. Try that with a cheap Android phone that no longer updates fresh off the shelf. And many PC manufactures only support with firmware updates for 2 years if one is lucky.
Important bit from the article that RobBob has shared (bold/italic emphasis mine):
Using Windows Backup to “sync your settings to the cloud” sounds like a simple option, but that option might not work for you. As it currently exists, the Windows Backup option also copies personal data to the OneDrive cloud storage service. If you have a substantial amount of data and haven’t paid for a Microsoft 365 Home or Personal subscription or a standalone storage upgrade, you’ll burn through the 5GB of default storage and possibly wind up with a big mess.