Which Windows and Why?

Installing Windows. Which one is the best according to Sup Forums?

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Debian Stretch

having just been through this, the answer is most definitely windows 10 enterprise LTSB.

it's essentially windows 7 but with the benefits of windows 10. no bloatware or anything. highly recommend it

LGBT or 7

Using it as well, but don't go saying it's God's gift to us. Still has a bit of tracking and telemetry to disable, a Cortana™ search that takes up far too much memory and a UI that's annoying because you keep forgetting about its inconsistencies between different Windows™ features. Also detest how some settings are only changeable through the Settings "App".
God bless dual booting.

WINE 2.19

enterprise LTSB doesn't come with cortana?

and as for the tracking/telemetry, i block everything using a network-level dns filter (pi-hole, specifically)

>windows kernel

Good man, but on the Cortana side, I mean that SearchUI.exe or something that's always running in the background, but I'm new to it so I may see if it can be disabled.
Once I get a pi, I'll definitely set it up as a pi-hole though, as I don't trust just the windows host file.

>having to spend all this energy on making the OS usable
>this is somehow considered acceptable

i'm not sure about the search thing. if you decide to use pi-hole, then you may be interested in this: wally3k.github.io/.

good luck!

install gentoo

Yes, but getting the thing is a bitch.

I used to use Arch, so I'm used to it, but with Windows™ 10™, the set up is much more annoying.

Note: I will be acquiring it from the Internets, so finding and setting it up should be achievable.

8.1 embedded is the best windows currently available.

7 or 8.1 with classic shell. Don't bother with 10

install gentoo

7 Ultimate.

8.1

You just gotta install Classic Shell.

NT 3.1 was pretty good.

Why no love for Microsoft Bob?

Can you fucking promote the artist who made this?

The best is XP but it's discontinued, Windows 10 is spying your ass (unless it's Windows 10 Enterprise), Windows 7 integrated telemetry and is buggy as fuck, Windows 8.1 integrated telemetry as well, is less buggy, and deserves the worst UI award.

According to my roommate's dad, who's a CNRS scientist, Windows is supposed to be securable to be used by the American administration but his lab couldn't manage to do it and they gave up and installed Gentoo eventually.
>“Some mornings I had to recompile my email client on Gentoo unstable, but it was kinda fun”

If you're a retard who doesn't give a shit about security or privacy, just install Windows 10. If you want a box that just werks (at least more than Windows 7), install KDE Neon.

ZorinOS Lite
Because better kernel

Doesn't ZorinOS destroy your BIOS? It looks like a bad idea.

/thread

It doesn't unless you're on a lenovo laptop.

ReactOS

Don't listen to those retards
I'm Sup Forums.
I would say windows 10 is the best, if you wan't clean and fast OS (that actually work) go for win 10 LTSB

>The best is XP

lol no
Even Vista is more secure than that ancient piece of crap.

>Windows 10 is spying your ass (unless it's Windows 10 Enterprise)

All active Windows distributions are spying on you.

>If you want a box that just werks (at least more than Windows 7), install KDE Neon.

WINE won't replace Windows any time soon, so no, Linux is not the way.

Win7 Ultimate, because nothing else is even close in the Windows ecosystem. Learn it and you are in complete control, not anybody else.

Wine doesn't have to fully replace windows because there's lots of Linux native software that does it's job equally or better than windows alternatives. And WINE got much better recently, supporting dx10/11 and even running on android. Windows will be obsolete before the W7 update deadline. Not to mention w10 is one of the reasons wine development picked up pace.

Win 7 because cause anything newer is to much botnet and anything older will give you other problems

>imblying microsoft hasn't been spying on you since windoors 3.1

>display changes saturation based on image displayed
>go into settings and turn it off which fixes it
>one update later
>issue is back but setting is still set to off
>wtf
>find some other option and set it to off there too
>update
>IT'S BACK BUT THE SETTINGS ARE STILL SET TO OFF
>I CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE ELSE TO TURN IT OFF
RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WHY . THE . FUCK ?

NT, Just NT

Computers are like AC: when you open windows they stop working. Install gentoo.

Whichever one you like, user. It doesn't fucking matter, you can't de-botnet proprietary code.
>buying into the microsoft botnet
>oh no, but i turned off some botnet features
>i don't trust microsoft that's why i turned off those features
>but i'm still running proprietary microsoft code that could be doing literally anything without my knowledge or consent
If you don't trust microsoft, don't run any of their code. If you think microsoft is going to spy on you and is willing to do nefarious things, then WHY WOULD THEY LET YOU TURN OFF THEIR EVIL MALWARE WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE TO? I get turning off some features if they annoy you for whatever reason, but don't pretend like there's a way out of the botnet. If they want to fuck your life up, they could do it in windows 7, 8, or 10. And you can't stop them unless you don't use their products at all. Having said that, 8.1, but 10 if you want cortana or dx12 for some reason.

stripped down win 7 ultimate

Windows is bad. Don't use Windows!

Load a Linux host then 10 LTSB and Windows 7 Ultimate in KVM virtual machines, or use which ever host Windows you prefer and run other OS in VM.

Tracking doesn't matter if you don't do anything that matters with a compromised Windows machine, which is all of them.

don't fall for the LTSB meme, I used it and its still shit. It still has fullscreen update popups, and if you leave it long enough it will forcefully update still.
You should use a GNU/Linux distro instead, as the only reason for using windows is AAA games (if you are a gamer, firstly fuck off to Sup Forums and secondly windows 9 eastcoast.hosting/Windows9/ is the only version of windows that isn't complete shit (but still shit).

7.

>Google chrome pre-installed
Jesus fuck, disgusting. The other windows version which was shilled here seems much better even though it's based on w10

I hate Windows 10. I tired it and I hate how it has these two 'layers' of software, the normal programs and the apps, it now has the control panel and this superfluous metro-style system settings. I hate how the Home Edition forces me to update their creators stuff and force installs apps like Gameloft shit and fucking Candy Crush for no good reason. I hate how their vision now is the One OS To Rule Them All and they force Windows Ink onto any and every Win 10 machine regardless of hardware specs. I hate how they're advertising on my PC in the Start menu. Fuck them all.

Best Windows is no Windows. Go Win 7 if you really can't live without it otherwise just pray that Steam manages to make Linux gaming a thing and watch that shit corporation burn.

LTSB is a meme, it doesn't have creators update or the fall creators update, which have performance improvements. Just disable the stuff you don't like on regular windows

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japanese xp sp3
7 with hella tweaks
reactOS

TempleOS

v3.11

gentoo

You can actually make Current Branch work better than LTSB with a simple GitHub script.

Why the japanese version of XP?

I wish there were some coo,l games that looked like this animation.