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Nvidia open drivers.

Wayland has rendering glitches (most notably with steam) and X11 has constant micro-flickering that kills my eyes.

The only thing that shouldn’t have anything to do with it was the NVMe.

Wiped clean several times over with sanitization and several linux installs, but it’s the only old part, and only tie-in.

They don’t.

Just went through another round of Proxmox-> NixOS-> EndeavourOS-> Windows11, because of Nvidia.

I upgraded everything except one NVMe.

Also read what I actually wrote. Full offline installs always.

And linux would be an option except Nvidia.

Chances are MS is still tracking you via TPM and/or hw/peripherals.

I can’t not register Windows 11, because despite everything I try to erase my hardware footprint, it still ties it to my digital license.

This goes as far as upgrading every single piece of hardware on my PC, and using an entirely different ISP.

And no. I don’t use any Microsoft services on Win 11. I don’t use Internet in any capacity when installing. Nor do I use any cd keys for Windows.

Everything the installer asks me, I answer “No.” to.

This should honestly be a huge privacy concern but alas.