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"Would it be that hard for Microsoft to just provide an operating system without needless bloat?"

Not at all, they have one, Windows 10 LTSC, its great! MS just make it extremely awkward to acquire through official channels.

And it's extremely easy through _other_ channels.

Presumably you mean piracy. How reputable are pirate sites these days? There's risk that you'll get malware with that approach.

You download the official ISO and then run a simple one-line script via PSExec (part or SysInternals suite) to disable WLMS. No malware involved.

Personally I would trust something from the pirate community far more than I would something from a giant corp.

Arguably, software companies tend to release more that I would class as "malware" than the pirates do nowadays.

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