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This is the kind of shenanigan that happens when you use an OS that literally has third party advertisements in its start menu

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I wish there was a genuine Pro version of Windows I could pay for that didn’t have any of this.

I think it's called Windows Server

I ran 2012 R2 as a daily driver for a long time.

Likewise - like for 8 years.

Now I'm on 2016, and actually just today started to investigate where to go from here. Probably will stick with Windows (2022) as host OS for my VMs.

What is Windows (2022)? Where can you get it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2022

LTSC doesn't, but it's not easily available through conventional retail channels. If you're putting a Windows machine in a kiosk, POS, machine, or similar commercial setting, though, LTSC is the way to go.

Weird thing is I use Surface kit, ie despite everything being from Microsoft I can’t pay them money to get a Windows (Workstation or LTSP) without ads.

>> I can’t pay them money to get a Windows (Workstation or LTSP) without ads.

If you could, they would be acknowledging that the ads were bad.

It would also provide a financial incentive for them to make the ads even worse.

Yeah, we tried to buy LTSC when I was working for an embedded startup. We found we couldnt just "buy" it, instead had to go thru a complex partnership with MS, which people told us could take months and lots of legal fees.

We ended up shipping standard Windows 10-- with candy crush saga.

“Windows 11 Pro for Workstations” doesn’t have 3rd party crap. You still get the MS crap though.

Its called Windows 10 LTSC. I have been running it for years and everytime I use a non-LTSC version of Windows, i'm baffled by the amount of bullshit MS manages stuff in their OS. It's almost as if they are actively trying to make people leave their ecosystem.

I tried switching to ltsc, all was fine for a few months, then I hit an issue with a game (actually I think it was several games). After a long time googling I discovered it wasn't fixable in ltsc. I can't recall exactly what it was, but it was enough for me to switch back to pro (I have a msdn license at work so I have access to whatever windows iso and licenses I want).

I have Win 10 Pro genuine that comes with my laptop and I still get candy crush icon and some others that I forgot, but microsoft team you can't remove it, it comes back every time so what are you talking about

It's called Arch

Well, in reality...

This is the kind of shenanigan that happens when you use an OS where the widespread norm is to run highly privileged executables with full access to your home (and desktop) dirs in order to install software. Or really uses full filesystem mutability for package/software installation.

Because I'd be willing to bet a pretty serious amount of money that someone tweaked the Edge MSI installer/updater package and accidentally re-triggered the "First Install Icon to Desktop" step on upgrades. Edge updates very, very frequently and Boom, bug.

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