Installing #Windows11 on the new-to-my-mum #laptop - a Lenovo X1 Carbon if you must know - because I wouldn't trust anyone's pre-installed Windows on a refurb machine. Plus, as with all laptops I put together for family, it got a new NVMe drive so it needed an OS anyway.
Fortunately I managed to install using a local user account, but the number of “can we spy on you, pretty please?" dialogs and all the useless junk that gets installed during a "clean" install already annoys the heck out of me.
That laptop also going to get a #LinuxMint install and we'll see if I can make that work for her as I remain less and less impressed with Windows. But I'm also a 12h one-way trip away if something goes wrong…






