You are describing Windows 11 LTSC which is a product that exists because Microsoft knows people want to turn this crap off.

It is of course only available in volume licensing to keep it away from normal users. Only businesses get to control their computers.

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Hard_Space 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I moved all my home LAN Windows machines to LTSC IoT in February; cost me about 90 euros for each license. You can buy individual licenses from online stores that will connect to MS and validate correctly. You'll have to install the MS app store from GitHub (!), and there are some other issues, but at least you're years away from what hit everyone else this October.

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testartr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

which shows that only businesses care about that stuff.

normal people don't give a fuck, they actually like the things HN bitches about - online account, data storage and services

	▲	xboxnolifes 42 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It shows nothing. Normal users dont even get the option. They probably dont give a fuck, based on a ton of other things, but there is no option to even choose the no bloat option.
	▲	hooskerdu an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Word on the ground is this is turning around