Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.

LTSC is designed for the most conservative of customers, who don't want ANY funny business on their operating systems.

It's technically possible to tweak pro such that it's mostly the same thing, but LTSC comes that way out of the box, fully supported by Microsoft, and that's not going to change because they don't want to lose these lucrative enterprise customers.

LTSC/LTSB doesn’t have the Windows App Store - and to my knowledge you can’t install it either. Pro cones with the App Store and to my knowledge you can’t uninstall it.

>and to my knowledge you can’t install it either

Yes you can. https://github.com/kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore

I consider it a feature

no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads

On Pro, I have no auto-reboot, OneDrive is disabled, no ads, and the Store is useful at times and can easily be ignored when I'm not using it. I'm not sure how LTSC would be an improvement.

they're features of the OS controllable in the group policy editor

rather than downloading some third party app that attempts to break the functionality without (hopefully) breaking other features

(also hoping some new update doesn't re-enable what you thought you disabled)

> You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing.

Apparently the minimum for getting a VL agreement is 5 licenses, and the other 4 can be padded out with cheap/filler licenses. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...