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You can in fact buy a minimal edition of Windows from Microsoft, e.g. Windows 10 LTSC. However, to buy it legally one needs to jump through some hoops (I think you need to have an Azure or enterprise account, or something) before being able to buy a license.

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Enterprise is more what you're looking for, LTSC is designed for special use cases only. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l... has some examples of why you don't want to use it except in cases.

The most likely reason is a stripped down version of periphal support, no new feature releases etc. It's more of set and forget installations rather than a daily driver.

which is actually good, i'd say, because i don't want my machine to suddenly stop working because some peripheral driver was updated and conflicts with some other driver, or cause system instability.

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