Same, I just want something basic, I dont need nor want any sort of tracking and telemetry stuff or any additional apps and all the guff that comes with it, I want a base OS that I can then install what I want on it, something nice and light and nippy because its not running 100+ processes in the background that are nothing to do with what I'm doing...
I've not long reinstalled my work laptop so a bit loathed to do that again, but might drop it on a spare laptop I have laying around and see how it goes, would get more use that way rather than me running it on a VM...