hmm depends on who does... EDIT: see well in my view can summed up this way: patience + trial and error + good reasoning + Dism + Powershell = SUCCESS RESULT on fresh install:
Tuesday November 12th will be the beginning of the distribution of updates to v1909 (19H2) through WU/WSUS.
I didn't remove store as I use that to keep the apps I use up-to-date but once I removed Cortana completely & that makes the search straight from typing is START menu unavailable so I didn't remove/disable Cortana Shell search functionality after that incident completely, rather I remove most of the Cortana & other related telemetries. I believe MS store can be removable safely, even you can try Revo Uninstaller Pro version to remove store or any other MS app
one issue I see with people wanting to remove the store is that alot of windows services them selves are updated through the windows store. anything related to xbox depends on the store. gamebar, game services.live service. dolby services. dolby atmos, dolby DTS and realtek/amd/nvidia. basically dumbing down windows by removing it.
That depends per user. I have no BSOD and everything is running just fine, but I have no Start and I can not right click on taskbar, because I have removed the whole SystemApps folder and powershell too. Also Settings can crash, when trying to access some settings, but since I setup everything at install and never come back, I do not mind. Many issues in 10 are caused by the new framework, which is not running at all (aplicationframeworkhost.exe, cortana, etc). As for the search, there are alternatives, that can find files within one second without indexing, like Ultrasearch or Wizfile, unlike the ancient Search within Windows 10. True, but as said, it depends, whether the user needs any of those. As for drivers, you only need the driver, nothing else. Like AMD locked framerate or other settings per app work just fine, even when no AMD services are running. Besides, Windows gets updated every 6 months, so in the worst case scenario, you are not missing that much. Sometimes I ran Windows without any updates at all for 6 months and I can not say, I would notice any difference.
@SM03 yes mee too i working on NTLITE but you remove bloats and agree!!but maybe your cumulative updates no working do you know that?
Wow this thread turned into debloating windows keep on track folks there always be cons and pro's regarding fiddling with your OS
If you configure properly, everything works, breaking the CU path is MS side fault most of the cases.
Tweaking is changing settings, by the GUI or by GPO, etcetc... most i see are chopping, removing all kinds of stuff by randomly pressing all possible options in various tools, and when you want to explain how to mount a wim, or what rebuilding wims means they have no clue how to do that (just an example from the past with the crappy ltsb creator) And many of them keep posting all kinds of problems afterwards, hoping to get a fix.