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It wouldn't let me login the other day until I completed my signup for "hello" whatever the f-that is. I had to pull the ethernet cable THEN I could login to wi
by hkchad 3y ago
It wouldn't let me login the other day until I completed my signup for "hello" whatever the f-that is. I had to pull the ethernet cable THEN I could login to windows. I promptly disabled any signup that had "hello" in the description. I have exactly 1 windows machine in my house and I am pretty close to making it 0. I was careful to setup that machine before connecting it to the internet so I could create a local account. The hoops people have to jump through just to use something they've paid for is getting pretty outlandish.
- itronitron 3y agoIt used to be that once the accumulated Windows updates had fully bogged down one of our computers we would uninstall Windows and install Ubuntu. These days we just uninstall Windows on any new system we get.
- slig 3y agoWhy can't they figure out a paid version for Professionals without any BS? WSL2 works fine, docker, Steam, multiple monitors, etc. Just remove the BS.
- CamperBob2 3y agoThey have (Enterprise LTSC). You can't have it. Also, you are now subscribed to OneDriveFacts(tm).
- taspeotis 3y agoYou can buy a grey market CD key cheaply or subscribe to whichever Microsoft 365 tier gives you Enterprise. The subscription model is somewhat expensive but if you’re able to make it a business expense for Windows + email hosting + the Office apps it’s not totally egregious.
- jacooper 3y agoThe issue with LTSC is it (afaik) sucks fkr gaming, with a lot of missing stuff for dx12 and so on.
- blibble 3y agoI've been running it on my gaming machine for several years and I have not had a single problem with it
- CamperBob2 3y agoI do have DX12 support in Win10 LTSC IoT, according to dxdiag. But I haven't tried to run any high-end games on this machine yet, so who knows if it would actually work.
- SushiHippie 3y ago> You can't have it. There is https://massgrave.dev https://massgrave.dev GitHub repo has ~54k stars https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts Microsoft seemingly does not really care I guess, otherwise they would've taken it down (GitHub is owned by Microsoft)
- taspeotis 3y agoYou mean Windows 11 Enterprise?
- slig 3y agoYes, but for Professionals. I do not want to run it illegally.
- taspeotis 3y agoThen pay for it?
- xboxnolifes 3y agoYou basically can't. It's a "contact sales" kind of sale. It's for businesses.
- whstl 3y agoDunno about Windows, but sadly, a lot of "professional" software also has this BS in abundance. Even when it's expensive. Anything with a modicum of respect for end-users is niche today.
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