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If you have access to it, through partner or MSDN or corporate licensing or otherwise, it is really worth installing the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB/LTSC version
by thrower123 5y ago
If you have access to it, through partner or MSDN or corporate licensing or otherwise, it is really worth installing the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB/LTSC versions.
It has most of the annoying things that plague consumer versions of Windows 10 stripped out, and it gets a very different cadence of updates, restricted to security and quality fixes. No Cortana, no Edge installed by default, no built-in Store universal apps.
It's rock solid; I have never gotten a bad update pushed to any of my boxes running LTSC over the past five years. If you want a Windows workstation that just works, and will continue to work without fiddling, this is it.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoTo be honest, Windows 10 Pro is 'good enough'. It's the 'Home' variant that is stuffed full of the third party games and apps.
- blibble 5y agopro comes with the same mountain of bullshit as home, including Candy Crush, solitaire with subscription (and/or ads) and xbox gaming
- mattowen_uk 5y agoAnd it's a 2 second job to remove the tiles, and they don't come back. Windows comes with a lot of things I personally don't use, but I don't feel that I have to obsessively remove them all.
- e17 5y agoI used LTSB/C for ages but when WSL2 came along I had to ditch it for the Pro version. Is WSL2 working on LTSC now?
- josephcsible 5y ago> no Edge installed by default Are you sure this is a good thing? As much as I don't like Edge, aren't the alternatives either IE or no browser? It's not like they'll ship Firefox preinstalled instead.
- thrower123 5y agoThe LTSC images are based off of Windows 10 when they were still shipping non-Chromium Edge as the default browser in the consumer versions, so not having that around is a plus.