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AFAIK this should work for properly changing the "native" language of a Windows install (e.g. enables uninstalling the original language pack): https://winaero.com/upgrade-to-a-different-language-of-windows-10-from-the-installed-one/

Yes if You can wait 1-2 months. Next LTSC will be on 21H2.

Microsoft has announced Windows 10 LTSC version 21H2, and Windows 11 LTSC

I'm running LTSC build version 21H2 from gen2 on TPB

I have minimal apps installed, disabled the Windows Firewall in lieu of Simplewall and blacklisted everything but Signal, Mullvad, Simplewall and Firefox to have internet access.

What do I need to enable for the Wifi icon to show me I'm connected to wifi without clicking thru?

Separately, what services do I need to enable on the firewall to allow system updates to happen? Currently it's blocked but trial and error isn't getting me anywhere fast

Thanks in advance

Only tricky bit upgrading 2011 iMac is getting the cable to translate the thermal data so the iMac runs the system fans correctly. OWC makes a good cable that is sometimes on sale on Amazon. I've upgraded several iMacs with these with no issues. I'd recommend a 2.5 -> 3.5 drive sled as well.

https://amazon.com/gp/product/B00J42AFUA

I used Wireguard on LTSC 2019 with Mullvad, and didn't have any trouble. I would expect it to work with 2021 as well. I was using their client, and it worked fine.

If ProtonVPN's client is failing, you could maybe try the official client from the Wireguard devs. It would be more work to configure, but is likely to function correctly.

Go here -> https://winaero.com/how-to-uninstall-and-remove-edge-browser-in-windows-10/

Scroll to "Uninstall and remove the Edge legacy browser (EdgeHTML)" download and run the wimtweak tool, you might have to turn off windows defender but it works fine. (Check it out)[https://i.imgur.com/TfyblJU.jpg]

1. Didn't personally use it myself (I prefer Linux), but I installed it on a VM and also on a lot of other people's pc. No complaints there

2. No, the difference is only in licensing

3. If you ever touched windows 7, that is what LTSC likely feels like. No bloat(except edge) and just functional out of the box (+security updates)

I'd personally recommend to NOT connect it to microsoft account, aside from privacy reasons, it's really REALLY messy.

After install I recommend using https://wpd.app/ and https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 to disable the telemetry.

https://the-eye.eu/public/MSDN/Windows%2010/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=026e725465d57672458fb9eafa2acc3b29bdd761-1585142406-0-AVhLhM0vz_bqUmfNdlMCd-FPmgI7Ex366taTWvShaeiA4s8wRYWjWByqDOO-4E_8YbxPvuGsxFZamrX4fywA2eeeSB2Xm6MPsIzRGsnr3A5Rri5UeHv-blCxu4HKAdDF...

You can download it for free from here I recommend the 2019 version after a lot of testing.

Oh, there is one thing I did that I forgot about: added Windows Terminal from github. I used the "Via Github" method here:

https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

... which is basically downloading the msixbundle from there, and using a Powershell command to install it.

I have no idea if it will help, but it's minimal impact and it's easy to uninstall again if you don't want it.

when install unplug from net until you get things setup

i like https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/
and turn off game bar ;p

I can tell you that 2019 supports HDR, but not very well, at least on my hardware. SDR anything, pretty much, looks terrible when HDR is enabled. Pretty much the only program I use it with is Assassin's Creed: Origins, which seems to drive HDR itself directly, rather than relying on whatever services Windows offers. That looks pretty good. Everything else is pretty much horrible, even after using the HDR 'tuner' program.

Dunno about AMD drivers. The current sticky post talks about NVidia, but nobody has chimed in with AMD data yet.

My understanding is that LTSC does not support upgrades, period, that only clean installs are supported. However, I was downvoted pretty heavily the last time I said that, so maybe it does. You could try burning an LTSC version and see what you get.

If it doesn't support direct upgrades, you may be able to [https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2209298-how-to-update-windows-7-8-8-1-enterprise-to-windows-10-ltsc-2019](hack on the ISO a little), modifying an XML file, to make it work. I haven't tried this, and nobody here has made a direct claim that it works. But it might be an option.

In general, I think clean installs are a good idea anyway, to clean out old cruft. Most of my unhappiness with the Win10 UI is solved with one download: [https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/](Open-Shell-Menu), which replaces the start button. The other issues in LTSC are just a few settings changes about folders, extensions, and hidden files, and typically only take me a few minutes to fix.

You could try a free open source tool called Snappy Driver Installer Origin to install the drivers you need instead of the terrible drivers from windows update.

What I normally do is install the K-Lite Codec Pack. It has basically every codec you'll ever see, a couple of nice media players (I use Media Player Classic), and works beautifully on LTSC.

Yeah, those arguments are pretty bogus. "It leaves a money trail" is probably the worst one, because you leave a money trail anyway with your normal IP address.

If you connect to a shared-server VPN like Mullvad, and then run a Tor circuit over that, you're immune to your ISP even knowing you're running Tor, and probably fairly resistant to anyone else in the circuit knowing, either. Only entities with taps on both sides of the VPN (like the VPN provider or the government) would be able to determine that you were running it, and then Tor itself gives away very little. It might or might not make correlation attacks slightly easier (since there's one hop they know about that they can interfere with), but they can do the same correlation attacks against an initial direct Tor connection, so it's probably no more dangerous.

Determining what you were doing with Tor alone is hard; running it over a VPN makes a little bit harder, and you lose nothing in particular by doing so.

Going the other way, running a VPN over Tor, is a bad idea. You wreck pretty much everything good about Tor, you put a lot of load on their network, and you totally bollix up your VPN connection because you have to use TCP. You gain nothing, you lose almost all the good features of both protocols.

Tor over a VPN is fine, and might be slightly better in terms of protecting you. A VPN over Tor is a goddamn disaster.