Yeah. If you pay a few dollars for a product key from one of those grey market sites (legally dubious but there's no danger to you) you can get Windows 11 IoT LTSC which is a version of Windows without all the crap that people complain about.

I've been running that on my desktop for a while and the only problem I ran into was that Winget doesn't work by default and it is quite a pain to get working (I did manage in the end but it involved downloading some core windows file from a random windows help website which isn't ideal).

The only reason I needed it is because OCaml is only distributed on Windows with Winget. I think the Windows Store also probably doesn't work (never tried) but that's a bonus. Same for the Windows game bar, whatever that crap is. (Steam and games themselves work fine.)

Other than that it's rock solid and a nice improvement over Windows 10. It can even install printers quickly and reliably which I thought I would never see in my lifetime (Linux still can't).