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What I don't understand - Windows 10 Pro comes with tons of pre-installed junk - Candy Crush etc. Just charge what you need to, business don't want this stuff.

nycticorax 6y ago
Well, large businesses at least get Windows 10 Enterprise, which doesn't come with all of that nonsense. The real shame is that you can't get Windows 10 Enterprise without a volume license.
- kube-system 6y ago
  You can get Win 10 Pro. I don’t remember my system having any of that junk preinstalled
  - Shared404 6y ago
    You do get obtrusive telemetry (Cortana is a good example), but you avoid Candy Crush et al. You can disable some of the telemetry during install as well.
    - brutal_boi 6y ago
      Just run any of the reclaim series. Pure gold if you ask me. https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1 https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
      - vetinari 6y ago
        That looks like fork of https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
  - brirec 6y ago
    It installed itself on any Win 10 machine I saw (most of which run Pro), except those running Enterprise (or LTSC/LTSB), or an education license. Er, I heard that junk doesn’t install itself on “Pro for Workstations,” but I’m not certain and even then that’s another hundred dollars more expensive than Pro. And even Enterprise still comes with a lot of junk that, like, 90% of users won’t need. Windows AR? Paint 3D? And so on… half the things in the start menu of a stock Windows 10 Pro install are either crap like Candy Crush, fluff like 3D viewer, or niche like the Windows AR thing. The worst part about this is that there’s definitely a middle ground between not including anything and pushing crap on people — both nearly every Linux distro I have ever seen, as well as Apple nail that balance, and to be frank with the App Store or Microsoft Store and such I really don’t see the need to include hardly anything.
  - ukyrgf 6y ago
    You're correct that they aren't preinstalled, but once you connect to the internet they will be downloaded and installed automatically.
- cable2600 6y ago
  You can get a 90 day demo of Windows 10 Enterprise from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-... Install it in a virtual machine, every 90 days make a new virtual machine from scratch. That or use the secret code to reset the demo days. Enter an Enterprise key when you want to register it for real.
  - abacadaba 6y ago
    Or just run Linux.
  - mpfundstein 6y ago
    you are kidding, right?

nycticorax 6y ago

Well, large businesses at least get Windows 10 Enterprise, which doesn't come with all of that nonsense. The real shame is that you can't get Windows 10 Enterprise without a volume license.

kube-system 6y ago
You can get Win 10 Pro. I don’t remember my system having any of that junk preinstalled
- Shared404 6y ago
  You do get obtrusive telemetry (Cortana is a good example), but you avoid Candy Crush et al. You can disable some of the telemetry during install as well.
  - brutal_boi 6y ago
    Just run any of the reclaim series. Pure gold if you ask me. https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1 https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1
    - vetinari 6y ago
      That looks like fork of https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
- brirec 6y ago
  It installed itself on any Win 10 machine I saw (most of which run Pro), except those running Enterprise (or LTSC/LTSB), or an education license. Er, I heard that junk doesn’t install itself on “Pro for Workstations,” but I’m not certain and even then that’s another hundred dollars more expensive than Pro. And even Enterprise still comes with a lot of junk that, like, 90% of users won’t need. Windows AR? Paint 3D? And so on… half the things in the start menu of a stock Windows 10 Pro install are either crap like Candy Crush, fluff like 3D viewer, or niche like the Windows AR thing. The worst part about this is that there’s definitely a middle ground between not including anything and pushing crap on people — both nearly every Linux distro I have ever seen, as well as Apple nail that balance, and to be frank with the App Store or Microsoft Store and such I really don’t see the need to include hardly anything.
- ukyrgf 6y ago
  You're correct that they aren't preinstalled, but once you connect to the internet they will be downloaded and installed automatically.
cable2600 6y ago
You can get a 90 day demo of Windows 10 Enterprise from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-... Install it in a virtual machine, every 90 days make a new virtual machine from scratch. That or use the secret code to reset the demo days. Enter an Enterprise key when you want to register it for real.
- abacadaba 6y ago
  Or just run Linux.
- mpfundstein 6y ago
  you are kidding, right?