{"id":255317,"date":"2026-05-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/i-left-windows-to-escape-preinstalled-bloat-and-then-i-found-it-on-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:50:07","slug":"i-left-windows-to-escape-preinstalled-bloat-and-then-i-found-it-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/i-left-windows-to-escape-preinstalled-bloat-and-then-i-found-it-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"I left Windows to escape preinstalled bloat, and then I found it on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/left-windows-escape-preinstalled-bloat-found-it-on-linux\/\">I left Windows to escape preinstalled bloat, and then I found it on Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/left-windows-escape-preinstalled-bloat-found-it-on-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/left-windows-escape-preinstalled-bloat-found-it-on-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 18:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of many reasons for escaping Windows (as I assume is for a majority of us as well) was to get rid of unnecessary pre-installed packages. This is especially true for laptops, which come with a lot of junk.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, Windows just seems to never stop getting in your way. Be it forced updates, interrupting adverts or a general push to annoy the user in the most trivial way possible, there\u2019s a lot that Microsoft could learn from the open-source community.<\/p>\n<p>Using KDE as my desktop environment had so far been a breeze on CachyOS, or so I thought. Don\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 I love KDE, but I also seemed to notice that it pulled in a ton of dependencies along the way. For me, this pet peeve was enough to grind my gears.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t5 programs you need to know about as a Linux user<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Linux is more than a backup OS, and these programs prove it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"exploring-the-ldquo-bloat-rdquo-within-linux\">\n                        Exploring the \u201cbloat\u201d within Linux<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"kde-is-a-pretty-bad-offender\">\n            KDE is a pretty bad offender<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>         &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/left-windows-escape-preinstalled-bloat-found-it-on-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Windows to escape preinstalled bloat, and then I found it on Linux https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/left-windows-escape-preinstalled-bloat-found-it-on-linux\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/plasma-install-arch.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110],"class_list":["post-255317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255319,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255317\/revisions\/255319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}