Microsoft Developer: You Still Should Have Anti-Virus With Windows Subsystem For Linux

[brrrrttttt]

... and enjoy partial functionality of your new and shiny hardware. great advice!

If you bought shitty hardware these days, there's really no helping you. Pretty much just need to avoid nvidia and realtek.

[aht0]

It is just a frontend for the official MS tools to customize Windows iso files for specific usecases (embedded use, network boot, and so on), which are included in Windows, and removing services or stuff you might think you don't need can very well come bite you some time later when you install an application that expects that feature/service to be available and then crashes mysteriously.

It's not the first time that I "fix" someone's PC or VM by reinstalling their software on a Windows that was not tampered with.

It's front-end of a dism.exe. When you want 'advanced' use-case, you'll have to use 3-4 different (MSMG, NTLite, DISM GUI and so forth) front-ends or dism itself from command line. I have 4 different iso's made for different users-use cases. Since I reserve the least modded iso's for others and my own use for windows is mostly gaming.. Yeah, modding isos might bite into butt, over time you'll figure out what you can do safely.