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Using LTSC to avoid bloat is like removing the chairs and radio from your car to reduce weight. My experience with Win 10 LTSC was not terribly faster than Windows 10 Home, and night-and-day slower compared to a GNOME or KDE setup.

I suppose it's a fair play if you're contractually obligated to play Riot-published games or something, but... man. I've had better performance playing games on DXVK since 2016. Windows is a heavy hog.

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> Using LTSC to avoid bloat is like removing the chairs and radio from your car to reduce weight.

LOL, I don't think that's how you meant it, but 100% agreed those are some of the first things to go when you wanna have fun in a car.

Windows LTSC is an amazing experience compared to vanilla windows, it's actually a decent OS that you can more or less control and you don't have to spend a weekend debloating and figuing out how to rip out cortana and ads and all the other garbage.

It's not about performance. It's about not having Candy Crush Saga ads in the Start menu.

Just install using the "English (World)" locale.

This was sufficient justification for me

I don't follow what's going on here. I'm running current Windows 11 Pro, licenses purchased from one of the markets for under AUD$50, and turned off all the standard annoyances via setting toggles and never see an ad or weather report etc.

Systems are snappy on 6th gen i7 laptops.

Or get an edition that doesn't have all of that to begin with, and is supported for 10 years so you don't have to worry about updates mysteriously resetting the annoyance settings that you've disabled, or randomly breaking stuff.

> I'm running current Windows 11 Pro, licenses purchased from one of the markets for under AUD$50

You've probably wasted the 50 bucks. A valid product key a license does not make. Those cheap keys are usually ones for OEM licensing. If that is the case, you do not have a license.

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