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LTSC is the answer (despite what MS "advocates" will tell you) no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads I've had a legitimate copy on my gaming pc for

LTSC is the answer (despite what MS "advocates" will tell you) no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads I've had a legitimate copy on my gaming pc for 18 months now without issue aliexpress has an excellent range of grey market keys...

v0x 5y ago
Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.
- blibble 5y ago
  no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
  LTSC/LTSB doesn’t have the Windows App Store - and to my knowledge you can’t install it either. Pro cones with the App Store and to my knowledge you can’t uninstall it.
  - gruez 5y ago
    >and to my knowledge you can’t install it either Yes you can. https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore
  - kasabali 5y ago
    I consider it a feature
- kstenerud 5y ago
  LTSC is designed for the most conservative of customers, who don't want ANY funny business on their operating systems. It's technically possible to tweak pro such that it's mostly the same thing, but LTSC comes that way out of the box, fully supported by Microsoft, and that's not going to change because they don't want to lose these lucrative enterprise customers.
jonathantf2 5y ago
You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing. Pro with a decrapifier script like the one you can find on Spiceworks will work a lot better, and allow you to run UWP games too.
- gruez 5y ago
  > You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing. Apparently the minimum for getting a VL agreement is 5 licenses, and the other 4 can be padded out with cheap/filler licenses. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-instructions-for-purchasing-a-windows-10-ltsc-license https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
stordoff 5y ago
On Pro, I have no auto-reboot, OneDrive is disabled, no ads, and the Store is useful at times and can easily be ignored when I'm not using it. I'm not sure how LTSC would be an improvement.
- blibble 5y ago
  they're features of the OS controllable in the group policy editor rather than downloading some third party app that attempts to break the functionality without (hopefully) breaking other features (also hoping some new update doesn't re-enable what you thought you disabled)

v0x 5y ago

Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.

blibble 5y ago
no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads
DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
LTSC/LTSB doesn’t have the Windows App Store - and to my knowledge you can’t install it either. Pro cones with the App Store and to my knowledge you can’t uninstall it.
- gruez 5y ago
  >and to my knowledge you can’t install it either Yes you can. https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore
- kasabali 5y ago
  I consider it a feature
kstenerud 5y ago
LTSC is designed for the most conservative of customers, who don't want ANY funny business on their operating systems. It's technically possible to tweak pro such that it's mostly the same thing, but LTSC comes that way out of the box, fully supported by Microsoft, and that's not going to change because they don't want to lose these lucrative enterprise customers.

jonathantf2 5y ago

You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing. Pro with a decrapifier script like the one you can find on Spiceworks will work a lot better, and allow you to run UWP games too.

gruez 5y ago
> You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing. Apparently the minimum for getting a VL agreement is 5 licenses, and the other 4 can be padded out with cheap/filler licenses. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-instructions-for-purchasing-a-windows-10-ltsc-license https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...

stordoff 5y ago

On Pro, I have no auto-reboot, OneDrive is disabled, no ads, and the Store is useful at times and can easily be ignored when I'm not using it. I'm not sure how LTSC would be an improvement.

blibble 5y ago
they're features of the OS controllable in the group policy editor rather than downloading some third party app that attempts to break the functionality without (hopefully) breaking other features (also hoping some new update doesn't re-enable what you thought you disabled)