I 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?
Re:Reclaim Windows10
by josephcsible on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:41PM
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> 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.
Re:Reclaim Windows10
by thrower123 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:52PM
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The 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.
Re:Reclaim Windows10
by mattowen_uk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:41AM
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To be honest, Windows 10 Pro is 'good enough'. It's the 'Home' variant that is stuffed full of the third party games and apps.
pro comes with the same mountain of bullshit as home, including Candy Crush, solitaire with subscription (and/or ads) and xbox gaming
Re:Reclaim Windows10
by mattowen_uk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:21PM
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And 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.
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.