What is the difference between Essentials and Standard? I searched and only found vague descriptions about Essentials limited to 25 or 50 users. Is Essentials more user friendly or easier to use if I want to use it as a desktop?
as found on h**p://thewindowsclub.com/windows-server-2016-editions: Windows Server comes in 3 main editions: Datacenter Edition: Donning all the basic capabilities of Windows Server, this edition will provide substantial efficacy to the Organization with a requirement for unlimited virtualization coupled with robust new features. Standard Edition: Quintessential for Organization with a need for limited virtualization, this model brings forth a general purpose yet a sturdy Server Operating System. Essentials: Targeted for smaller Organization comprising no more than 50 users, this edition provides limited capabilities as per your requirement. Windows Server 2016 MultiPoint Premium Server, Windows Storage Server 2016 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 are the other editions.
as a desktop OS just curious to know,which is more stable ,reliable windows server standard or Ltsb ?
Some people will swear that server is more stable. Last server OS I used was 2003, Win 7 was good enough not to touch server OS for desktop purposes, Win 10 LTSB 2016 is DEFINITELY good desktop OS Choice is yours, you will be using it
You forgot LTSB has built in spying and tracking. Server does not, from what I read. Server is the way to go.
You can turn off tracking with GPO (that is the point). Or just never connect to Internet, or use Linux, and stop wasting our time
You try to turn off GPO in LTSB and there will be outgoing connections to microsoft. Try it. Open up resource monitor and watch. Telemetry cant be turned to "off", minimal is "security".
I know about about using GPO on the LTSB editions 90 ( seen your post in the Linux forum) but was wondering the same thing about Server not having any tracking etc. Has that been established yet?
Thanks for the link 90...I also would like to dig into this a little deeper. Not much info out there concerning this.
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It's time to try again, I think And no 2016 isn't more stable than W10, it's just way cleaner from crap and less resource demanding, while it dosen't lack any major desktop feature (multimedia codecs tuner drivers, wifi and so on)