After working various jobs, I'm doing personal projects to get into entertainment entirely independently (challenging as heck). I'm lucky in my position to choose my own laptop, I've heard the woes of company laptops from people over the years however.

I chose mine without an OS. It's advertised as having all sorts of AI things, and made for Windows 11, however I didn't like Windows 11 since the beta (I just do not find the changes to be made for efficiency, however it may be down to what I'm used to).
I installed Windows 10 IoT LTSC, security updates until 2032 and none of that AI nonsense. I remapped the CoPilot key to open Notepad.