• Dudewitbow
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    1 year ago

    Europe has “N” versions of windows that do not have media codecs, and a few basic applications installed (e.g basic video player)

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      1 year ago

      Wish I knew about this a month ago when I installed Windows on an older machine that definitely doesn’t need anything but basic stuff.

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        1 year ago

        Sorry about my shitty wording, none of the thr basic stuff is installed, its basically a version of windows that assumes you are going to install your own version of most basic apps. Basically a media player, (both video and music), voice recording, skype and such are NOT installed.

        If youre on a device that needs no major feature updates except security ones, thats ehat the LTSB build is for. Getting one legally is difficult, however…

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I got that. That would have been perfect for my garage computer. A low spec machine that would just be hooked up to my CNC. I don’t need voice recording, media player and stuff like that. Bare bones would be perfect for that machine both in SSD space saved and (I assume) aslightly faster since the hardware is a few years old now.