[guilamu]

Use LTSC. It'll fix all the issues you are mentioning here.

[pomian]

Second ltsc -look into it once you try you will never go back. Available from various resellers nowadays. It is, what windows should be sold as.

[GuestFAUniverse]

AFAIK Office isn't supported on LTSC fka. LTSB.

Installed LTSB for a conservative superior. He just wanted to work, without changes. I supported that happily. Until we had to start using Office 365.

Or did they revert that restriction?

[Krssst]

LTSC cannot be bought as a regular customer unfortunately. Legally, regular customers are only allowed to use the enshittified version.

[cyberax]

You can get access to it, but it's a quest. You need to buy a volume license, and this requires at least 5 licenses (about $300). Then you'll be eligible to buy an LTSC version.

It doesn't require a corporation or anything, you can do that as a private person. But it IS annoying.

[guilamu]

Why not just get the iso, install, activate with massgravel and be done for life?

[majorchord]

Because it's illegal and that matters to some people

[guilamu]

That's true indeed, but Microsoft is not giving us any other option so why not use the good version at home? I mean what is the risk really?

[userbinator]

MS has always been (and probably still does) wanting you to pirate Windows instead of jumping to Linux or Mac.