The only thing you can't disable here are the vulns, technically MS is obligated to patch though so I'd be interested which ones apply, I'm assuming there's a lot of vulns in certain features. My Windows SSD is 60GB fully loaded with apps and drivers. Search and other stuff are just basic config items and plenty of UI replacements and tweaks to be had.
My Debian servers and laptop run way lighter as expected, unfortunately I need the custom hardware support of Windows for some software critical to my livelihood. All I do is deploy Windows in the same way I'd deploy and manage an enterprise workstation. No store, no live, no "apps," no overlay bs or news feeds, just pure Windows. Gotta say I prefer 11 so far to 10, the window snapping and some other changes have been good for productivity, which is really the only thing I care about since I'd switch that machine to Debian in a heartbeat if I didn't have a use case.
Idk why but when I left Windows 300GB was the OS itself and I was using it since I got my ASUS laptop in June 2023 to December 2023 right before the new year then I switched to Fedora 39 first then OpenSUSE Tumbleweed then back to Fedora 39 thanks to the asus-linux project. My HP Omen fans were going insane on Windows too no matter what I did or how well I cleaned them then I turned it into a media and storage Linux server with Docker and it's been quiet ever since
