I don't need this. What I need is a legal way to acquire Windows 10 Long Term Support Branch. Basically Windows 10 without all the crap. No metro, and no feature updates whatsoever, just security updates, and supported for 10 years. Sort of like a Windows version of RHEL, if you will.

Now that is something that I want.

To play a numbers game, I'd pay $500 for that if it came with HyperV and the possibility of creating VMs for development with no extra licensing cost. Maaybe $700.

Signed, same for me. I sure as hell won't upgrade my Win7 machine until I can have a Win10 that doesn't load me up with ads (I paid for the OS, no need to annoy me), phones home or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent!

>doesn't load me up with ads

Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you

>phones home

Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it?

>or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent

Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it

> Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you

Will be reset after the next Windows Update

> Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it?

Better hope that's a joke?!

> Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it

Windows 7, to my knowledge, does not come with Candy Crush, and also does not install games with Windows Update.

It's not a joke: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/01/microsoft_backports...

Uninstall apps you don't want or use a script to do it for you: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10