Managed to remove about 5-6 gigs of RAM usage and 15% CPU usage by disabling the AI stuff, One Drive, and random Dell/Adobe crapware.
@nitrofurano Ha ha I wish. This was just from disabling Windows services on my friend's laptop. I don't think they're ready to migrate to a Linux distro yet, but I'm easing them into the idea :P
@mauve using gnu/linux, i guess