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  • Tin10/Tiny11 - A difference

These are ultra stripped down custom builds of Windows 10/11. I tried them out in a VM, and while not perfect, they are noticeably less painful to use than the stock OS's. That points to the possibility that the offending part of the OS, whatever it is, can be removed/modified.

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    ensete Are these builds available to everyone? Do they run the latest security patches?

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        AGI

        They can be downloaded from the internet. I have not looked into the security stuff enough, but I consider PC security to be 99% bupkiss anyway.

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          I can confirm that it seems better that the official ones, but still with pain issues. Also tried Phoenix OS'es and they were bad as the og's.

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          Sunspark I'm on it right now, image still feels fuzzy and strainy. Using an intel driver from 2019. Seems not much different than the Tiny11.

            Erase the partition and start over with something else. At the end of the day, it's going to come down to a mix of the driver and OS support for certain features/kernel level.

            Windows 2004 to 22H2 all use the same NT kernel, only the "features" of the userland is different.

            1709, 1809 and 2004 introduced some graphical changes.

            1709-Last version with the old fullscreen exclusive mode if I recall right

            1809-Raytracing RTX support introduced (was beta in 1803), I think this was the last build that could do 3D support (worked better in 1709).

            2004-GPU scheduling option for dx 12_2 cards

            Build 1809 in the LTSC Enterprise channel is still receiving updates to 2029, so if you have an Intel driver from 2019 maybe that would be a good match because 1809 was released Nov 2018.

            Try 1809.

            I'm affraid older versions are no alternatives since I use Adobe (and many other graphic sw) and it needs at least 20H2.

            Sucks that they did that.. well, try that too.. it's the version I'm using here. 🙂 I've had it frozen for some time.

            Sunspark

            They all seem to be "forks" of the NTlite build. So far I've tried Tiny10, Tiny11, ReviOS 10, ReviOS11, and GhostSpecter 11. They are not pain free, but I would say subjectively they are about 50% better than stock Win 10/ Win 11

              For my regular PC I'm fine with leaving it frozen forever since it's stable and comfortable. I do update the browser, but Intel already abandoned video driver updates for this generation and I won't be updating the bios or OS patches, so I'm probably good until something breaks.

              My primary interest in the subject is for the Steam Deck. Valve's Windows drivers are semi-broken (missing functionality, etc) and you can't use the regular AMD drivers because they don't have support for the APU in it.. I'm hoping when the ROG Ally comes out, maybe the video driver will include RDNA2 code since the Ally is a different APU that is RDNA3.

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