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You will notice that neither of those require Windows to be a 'good' product. They do not make anything other than a pittance on actual license sales.

MS has 0 reason to invest any time or effort in making Windows a better product. It just needs to be good enough that the world doesn't totally abandon it. And with how entrenched it is with legacy software that won't run anywhere else, they've got that sorted.

I don't get why anyone is surprised when Windows sucks. There's no financial motivation to care about it. MS is a big company with shareholders - they go where the money is.

- here is my production grade setup for agentic ai on windows 11

- setup windows 11 with Rufus boot to disable online MS account creation https://rufus.ie/en/

- [download window 11 x64 iso from here ](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11)

- then download vmware workstation pro (you ll need to create a free account to get the download link on their website)

- install vmware workstation pro

- turn internet off

- plug your pendrive in with the rufus w11 x64 iso on it (mind ya, this pen drive ll first need full formatting before burning a w11 image to it)

- press f2 to reach bios in vmware settings and make it boot from pendrive

- turn internet off on your machine (DO NOT keep it on)

- install w11 (keep a 100gb for vmware)

- without updates it ll load real fast and you wont need an MS account (rufus takes care of it)

- while it installs, download revo uninstaller pro on a separate machine https://onefiles.net/9d170d01078634b5 (latest version 5.4.x) and put it inside a second pendrive / portable hdd

- once w11 loads, it ll ask you to enter a password, keep existing password blank and enter literally anything for a new password

- voila you are done with w11 setup inside vmware

- now connect the 2nd pendrive with revo and install it (need to clean uninstall many tools, hence we need this one)

- now go to search bar and type check for updates and update everything on w11 inside vmware

- next stop get unigetui from ms app store or from here https://devolutions.net/unigetui/ (it is a package manager responsible for installing just about everything else with auto updation of all packages)

- the open unigetui and search for the following packages vlc, winrar, winhance

- winhance is the fully customizable debloater you ll need to turn off all telemetry (we ll debloat after installing all the other requirements)

- next go to ms app store and install python or open powershell and type python

- the open unigetui and search for the following packages vlc, winrar, winhance

- winhance is the fully customizable debloater you ll need to turn off all telemetry (we ll debloat after installing all the other requirements)

- next go to ms app store and install python or open powershell and type python

- mind you this installs a python version manager that lets you install and uninstall multiple python versions

- after this python version manager is setup, install a specific version of python like

``` py install 3.13 ``` - next we need a node.js version manager, use fnm for it

https://github.com/Schniz/fnm - once installed, it may need to be added to environment variables manually

- once again choose a specific version of node.js and install it using

``` fnm install 23.12.0 ``` check fnm --help for commands - next we need a java version manager, use jvms for it

https://github.com/ystyle/jvms

- pretty self explanatory

- now install git and again it ll give you some trouble over environment variables, command not recognized etc, fixable with some gpt help

- at this point, we got git, node version manager, java version manager and python version manager and are ready to rumble

- install vscode/ visual studio whatever

- install codex

- install claude

- install opencode (both cli via npx and desktop app) and check their plans out https://opencode.ai/console/go

- install ghidra , ghidra-mcp (mind you open ghidra-mcp first because it only works with specific versions of ghidra and java) this is the reason we installed a java version manager

- check out setup for rea https://github.com/morluto/rea requires npx setup for rea and ghidra both, read documentation

- run winhance, check recommended settings under optimize and every other tab and restart the vm a few times for full debloat with 0 telemetry services

- congrats you have a full blown agentic environment at this point (if I missed anything i ll come back and update)

Several factors come together. For me, Spy-Recall was the dealbreaker. I can not use an operating system that constantly reports to the USA what I am doing. But the increase in RAM prices also means that I fail to see why I should overpay now due to greedy US AI corporations. These corporations all us folks money here. It is like a racket. This is not a "free market" either, since it is so heavily skewed in favour of corporations. The whole idea about capitalism, which the USA once claimed to worship before selling out to the TechBros, has been that free market competition leads to lower prices. Right now we see collusion, a mafia - why the TechBros aren't in jail already beats me. Too much financial kickbacks into the judicial system.