[donnachangstein]

> Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled

No, it's not that it isn't "preinstalled", the Microsoft Store is literally not supported on LTSC, by design. LTSC was never intended to run the Store. The original use case for LTSC was for ATMs, industrial control equipment, hospitals, and the like, where IoT wasn't appropriate, where you needed the ability to run full desktop applications.

> Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.

Yeah that's because the Store was never supposed to run on LTSC. It's not supported. Why would they offer an official way to re-enable it? The whole point of LTSC is that it doesn't include the store.

If someone cobbled together an ugly hack to shoehorn it in, by definition it could break at any time.

Which it has.

There is no customer for this.

[jaoane]

If by "customer" you mean "way of making money", I agree, since I didn’t pay for it. OTOH, I have been running LTSC on my desktop for years because it's the best edition of Windows, and I haven't had any issues with the Store, which I had to install manually, thus far.

[qmr]

> There is no customer for this.

Lots of people including myself run LTSC to minimize Microsoft shitware.