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>It's been a long time since Microsoft made an operating system.

Mostly true, it's been a long time since Microsoft made a CONSUMER operating system.

Windows Server isn't plagued with this crap, it costs a whole lot more, but doesn't have this nonsense. Also, isn't designed to be a desktop, the recommend install model these days is to install without the desktop gui (you basically get a powershell prompt, and that's it).

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Came here to say same. I install Windows Server as my base OS and everything else including my "desktop" Windows, runs as a VM. This lets me hack up my desktops - both Windows and Linux - without concern, as I can rollback to a snapshot. I can't imagine not having this.

If you do Windows development you'll probably have a Visual Studio license which will include a server license for "testing". I use that license as my base OS.

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