Back to Windows

[tony]

Bought a new laptop with windows 11 Home . My MacBook air is on its last legs and there's some programs I want to run that are windows based. Used apple for the better part of 15 years at least and was ready for a change.
Got an Acer Predator 16" gaming laptop as I'd like to start playing a few games again. Splitting time between my tiny apt and the GF's small condo, I couldn't do a desktop.

I use windows at work but, its been years since I've owned a windows machine.

Is it worth it to move to windows professional ?
Bloatware, apparently its a pretty big thing on this Acer. Is it pretty easy to just remove the unwanted programs?
Antivirus, malware programs that are good?
Any other programs that would be handy?

 

[gdfr9]

In my opinion, Yes.
I have both but i use the Windows more because i'm more used to it.

 

[wapitibob]

No need for Pro unless you're in a wired network in my opinion.
I removed all the excess stuff as soon as I turned the new laptop on. Every 6 months or so I back up to a usb drive then do a clean install, which in itself will not install any of the factory bloatware. The back up caveat is that I have a single root folder, under which all my user data is stored. So I just back up "Bobs Docs" folder and all subfolders, makes backups real easy. I change the path for Google Earth places to point to a GE folder there, save my bookmarks there, etc.

 

[jasonhul]

@tony - Sent you a PM.


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