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Win 10 is getting deprecated. I use my install still, but I personally don't recommend it as a new install.

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/youre-still-gaming-wi...

Win 10 is already becoming past tense, despite it being updated for security until 2032. In the present, I don't think Windows 10 is a good recommendation anymore. When installing a new system, I'd just go with the 11.

https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/youre-still-gaming-wi...

Gonna hard to justify win10 if certain apps/games whatever is only supported in win10. the obvious answer is Linux, but we already know the story there.

  > Where can one buy a key?

Don't. Please. The fact that you got denied is a hint that you cannot get a properly licensed Enterprise copy. A key would activate your Windows but not license it. In other words, it's piracy. And you can get a pirated copy for free. Save your money.

Anyone can be a company if you try hard enough!

I see them going for $150-300 on ebay, just don't ask where they came from.

I think the regular Windows versions are not worth it. Sure you can debloat the current configuration of the system, but it's a continually updated product, so it won't stay the same. Configurations will be overwritten, components reinstalled, etc.

This depends a lot on the person, and their lifestyle, I personally had enough of it. I like to set it, and (mostly) forget it.

Of course, it's still a piece of shit Windows. But I have basically copied the list from multiple third party sources, so, what got listed are actual features of the LTSC. And I think it's better that what's achievable with debloating scripts, especially if one isn't running them over and over again.

This isn't remotely true, it only really includes AAA "competitive" games. My solution here is to do without them; I would have probably bought BF6 had it supported Linux, but now that there are thousands of other games that work perfectly on Linux, it's a very minor loss. With Linux quickly becoming too big to ignore, sooner or later game studios will simply no longer be able to ignore that market. For now, it's only a few %, but it's growing, and still represents millions of sales. When lost revenue will exceed the cost of developing a compatible anti-cheat, Linux will be suddenly supported.

Not inane at all, just your phrasing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

This is not about "X sucks", but the very first questions from an engineering perspective should be whY? What do you want to accomplish? Is X actually a good approach towards Y?

If it turns out that trying to shoehorn X into kinda accomplishing Y is very hard work, then suggesting to use X2 instead is a perfectly sensible suggestion.

If you have a hard constraint that you must use X, even if it does not fit well to Y, fair enough. Then you add that as a reply or state it in the beginning.

Care to elaborate on what makes GNOME "fundamentally flawed and bad?" I used to dual boot, and every time I was running Windows I thought the UI was terrible compared to GNOME. Windows has a very inconsistent UI these days, partly because Microsoft keeps changing the most visible parts of it, but completely ignores system utilities that still use XP-era icons.

is there a tool that i can use to say stress test the OS as a whole that ll give me a score like how we do apache bench http tests because what is bloat might be very subjective on my part. is there a more objective measure?