A clean Windows 11 install is a Windows 10 install.
Windows 10 LTSC* for me personally
…with some registry tweaks to re-enable Photo Viewer, and the DolbyDecMFT DLL from a clean iso to playback surround audio
…and why at this point not just use Linux.
You spelled Linux wrong.
The closest thing to clean install is Ameliorated AME or Atlas OS. Check that out if you really need windows.
I actually use M365 and OneDrive. I still get periodic pushes to use these services on Windows 11. The upsell pressure from my OS is getting really bad.
The only thing holding me back from diving headlong into Linux is gaming support. I’ve been a windows user since W98. XP was the shit, 7 was rock solid, ten was pretty good, but it seems like Microsoft is dead set on speedrunning enshittification with 11.
Gaming support on Linux is the best it has ever been. Other than select games, nearly everything works now. It’s mostly competitive multiplayer games that don’t work because it’s the kernel anticheat that is the issue. Notably, Call of Duty and Destiny 2 don’t work. Halo does 100% work now, which is awesome. But if you mostly play single player games, you are probably totally fine.
