Well if you understand computers its trivial to remove every trace of bloatware, and other unwanted behaviour, and the days when windows was unreliable are very long gone. You are looking back at the days when it was a noddy bedroom operating system. If there are issues today its only ever 3rd party software, 3rd party non signed drivers on cheap chinese hardware, or actual physical hardware issues. And its free too... And a thousand times better and with support for the software for my 20 or so hobby devices, chargers, tools, and even my mower... What you have is like going back to the stone age in comparison, and it wont work anything much without emulators etc making it slow and unreliable. But thats your choice.
I can even give you a copy of windows 10 64 corporate version with all the metro aps, phone home stuff, junk and settings etc already gone, that is totally clean of junk or bloatware, all ready to just click install and walk off. It will have already drivers for your system built in, provided you have relatively modern decent quality hardware, and it will just work. And a single file to run afterwards so its activated... Its far easier than installing linux, and faster and smaller and easily as reliable!
thousands of open source programmes that are also genuinely FREELY and legally available.
Far less than for windows. And most of the filesare not or are less compatible. And non that are any use for my servo, rc transmitter, mower, sevral charger types, tools, miniature gas turbine, multimeters, etc etc etc utilities thatare required. Everything is VHS and you are on betamax.
and Manufacturing level.
