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> Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled No, it's not that it isn't "preinstalled", the Microsoft Store is literally not supported on LTSC
by donnachangstein 1y ago
> Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled
No, it's not that it isn't "preinstalled", the Microsoft Store is literally not supported on LTSC, by design. LTSC was never intended to run the Store. The original use case for LTSC was for ATMs, industrial control equipment, hospitals, and the like, where IoT wasn't appropriate, where you needed the ability to run full desktop applications.
> Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.
Yeah that's because the Store was never supposed to run on LTSC. It's not supported. Why would they offer an official way to re-enable it? The whole point of LTSC is that it doesn't include the store.
If someone cobbled together an ugly hack to shoehorn it in, by definition it could break at any time.
Which it has.
There is no customer for this.
- jaoane 1y agoIf by "customer" you mean "way of making money", I agree, since I didn’t pay for it. OTOH, I have been running LTSC on my desktop for years because it's the best edition of Windows, and I haven't had any issues with the Store, which I had to install manually, thus far.
- qmr 1y ago> There is no customer for this. Lots of people including myself run LTSC to minimize Microsoft shitware.
- donnachangstein 1y ago[flagged]
- asacrowflies 1y ago[flagged]
- DrillShopper 1y ago> No one is here to make you money or talk about "customers" Have you ever read this site before? Half of it is about that and startup culture.
- asacrowflies 1y agoI agree it always been pretty implicit part of the culture. Just never seen someone so virulent and blunt about it lol.
- nativeit 1y agoTo be fair, the headline could have been better worded. The convention for something like this is “Show HN: Title of Repo” I could understand how one might not understand what the aim of this post was. Maybe the ensuing conversation could have been handled better, but I would certainly include the parent comment in that indictment.
- JCattheATM 1y ago> Anyone pirating LTSC is by definition not a customer and has no right to make any demands of Microsoft. Luckily, no demand was made, just a solution offered by the community.