[throw0101c]

> windows feels more and more like adware these days

Which edition of Windows 11 is less/least/not ad-y? Is Pro in any ways better than Home?

Is there an Enterprise edition that I, as a 'normal person' / non-corporate entity, can purchase and use on my personal system (or VM running under Linux/macOS)? I would think that corporations would not want ads on their employer-provided systems, and so they aren't present in the {Pro?, Enterprise?} releases.

[yourusername]

>Which edition of Windows 11 is less/least/not ad-y? Is Pro in any ways better than Home?

Pro is better than home as it supports domain join so it will "allow" local accounts (hidden in the OOBE UI under "domain join instead"). As it can domain join it should respect every setting you could set through GPO and allow you to configure a bunch of things the home version won't. But if you're not a windows admin that knows this stuff already do you really want to invest your time in wrangling a increasingly hostile OS?

Enterprise is not really for sale to most people. Technically i suppose you could buy a M365 E3 subscription and use that to activate pro to enterprise, but again do you really want to?

[throw0101a]

> But if you're not a windows admin that knows this stuff already do you really want to invest your time in wrangling a increasingly hostile OS?

Sometimes it's needed for certain applications, so one has to at least run it in a VM perhaps.

I do Linux sysadmin stuff, but we have to deal with Windows clients, and so I many need it a (home) lab to play with things. I can do domain-y stuff with Samba 4 at least.