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For my home PCs, I purchased the MS Action Pack subscription so that I could install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB and not get ads and Cortana. With it and ClassicShell, it serves me nicely.

I prefer my FreeBSD box running Motif as my daily driver though.

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The Action Pack pack really is incredible value for what you get. It's also somewhat incredible that so few people seem to know about it.

Aren't those Windows licenses upgrade only?

Yes. It's upgrade licenses only. but as with all MS OS media, they can be installed on blank machines.

Yeah, but don't they get deactivated afterwards?

No they ask you to activate nicely with a grey overlay in the bottom right corner. This can be disabled but is not that annoying in practice.

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