This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

These distros are easy to install, include the right apps, skip the bloat and ads, and automatically detect your hardware.

Check out the usage information below for arguments. The basic idea is to take an unmodified Ubuntu ISO image, extract it, add some kernel command line parameters, then repack the data into a new ISO.

After years of testing, this distro caused the least disruption.