Windows OS

Windows 11 and 10 are without a doubt, the worst desktop operating systems, because you have to make great effort to disable all the crap that's included by default.
It is very easy to see, because all the default settings and options in the Control Panel are not designed to serve you as user, but to serve Microsoft, with your search queries, your browsing habits, your contacts, notes and everything you could possibly do on the computer.

I still use it, because I play games sometimes, but of course I spent a few hours disabling all the tracking features and stopped all the spyware services.

Links

Windows clean install

https://gravesoft.dev/clean_install_windows
https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media
https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol -- Windows 10 updates EOL
https://gist.github.com/VVispy/17b228cd9c151a495e7576255e1713b9

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

https://theregister.com/2024/01/30/microsoft_edge_tabs
What goes together better than Redmond and respecting people's preferences? Everything, really.
Windows users, take notice: Microsoft's Edge browser is said to be actively importing open Chrome tabs and slurping other data from Google's browser without permission and even if the "feature" that makes that happen is disabled.
Taking a quick spin around the internet, it's clear that this is happening to plenty of people - data being pulled into Edge by default, without permission - though it doesn't appear universal.

TidyOS

https://github.com/builtbybel/TidyOS
Did you switch to Windows 11 (maybe using the Flyby11 app) and feel like the OS is bloated with all its preinstalled apps and unnecessary default settings?
The TidyOS app brings together the best of many of my apps, all wrapped in the simplest UI you'll find on Windows 11.

An open and transparent Windows operating system, designed to optimize performance and latency

https://atlasos.net
https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas

WOR is a Powershell script for Windows

Used to harden, debloat, optimize, enhance privacy, avoid fingerprinting and improve performance on Windows 10 and 11
https://github.com/gordonbay/Windows-On-Reins

PrivateZilla: performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10

https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla

Windows 10 antispy tools

https://oo-software.com/en/shutup10 ⭐
You decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated

More windows - PC cleaner & Privacy tool that cleans unwanted traces:
https://privazer.com/en ⭐
And also:
https://w10privacy.de/english-home

Awesome Windows privacy

Documentation and scripts for better privacy on Microsoft Windows
https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy