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Install as “English (World)” and all adverts and additional software is missed, as it doesn’t know your region, therefore doesn’t know what to serve.

If you need the Windows Store, you can change the region post install, and it’ll remain clean and the store will then populate.

Gave up on Clarks years ago… the premium just isn’t worth it.

M&S and Next, when they have kids shoes in the Sales, are up there with the quality. But, recently we’ve been kitting ours out with shoes from Vinted. Seriously do not understand how these people have hardly-worn shoes and let them go for £6 or so - but it’s been a blinder so far.

Yes, our 365 team got estimates from Microsoft about 3 weeks ago.

If we don’t cull our usage before next August, our renewal will be £1m more than this year… That’s for 70,000 accounts and a whole lotta SharePoint.

Wait until Corporate sees the new data storage rates for 365 for next year and their potential new bill for cloud storage.

They’ll be spinning up those server room file servers in no time.

Until the directory structure and filename, including your SharePoint hostname, exceeds 400 characters and then it just breaks. Because, Microsoft.

Surprisingly easy to do with some quite nested folders with spaces in the names (as that takes 3 characters per space) and a long filename.

Because the paid-for “bloat” is per region. If you don’t define the region… taps side of forehead

Remember some ‘core’ apps, such as Paint and Calculator are delivered via the Store now too - so they’ll also be missing.

When choosing the region/language, choose “English (World)”. Boom, bloatware be gone.

You can safely change it to your correct region once you’ve logged in (Note: the Windows Store won’t work until you do).

You can’t run Android Auto directly on your phone anymore, it was disabled last year. It only runs as a service to be used by a suitable head unit.

DietPi (based on Debian). Incredibly lightweight. Easy menu system for installing apps easily which it then maintains and updates for you, or you can easily install Docker if you prefer that (or both). Contains a backup system if you want to use that too.