But in this case, I'm specifically seeing that even if you strip down 11 and remove even some of the annoyances like the update service, defender etc, you will still get better resource usage from Server WITH those components left in. Generally always been the case that the Server line performed a bit better than Client. But interesting to see that it STILL outperforms a super stripped down Client, without even doing anything to Server.
Well... there are a number of params that are either tailored "by hand" in the registry, or dragged from the kernel policies (that depend on the SKU/Activation keys), that matter or may matter. Just for one install Coretemp or other similar sw and look how the cpu voltage/frequency scales differently from client to server ( mean in balanced or energy saver schemes). The only way to make a client to act like a server (or viceversa) in that specific behavior is to export/delete/import what's inside \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power Just an example, likely there are dozens of such keys that influence other different behaviors (and I don't pretend to know them all)
That new Print Screen clipping tool nonsense is in... EDIT: Grudgingly come to actually accept that it works and in 99% of cases just saves manually cropping things after. ctfmon has a habit of erroring when logging back on but very solid otherwise now.
@Enthousiast Do Server builds not enforce Windows 11's system reqs? Was able to install Datacenter 25346.1001 just fine, with no restrictions of any sort, on to my 5th gen Dell Inspiron 5458. I do however assume that client builds will enforce those requirements and refuse to install on this laptop.
No Server only require the "usual" CPU Features: SSE2, NX, CompareExchange128, LahfSahf, PrefetchW according to hwreqchk.dll, SV3 IotEnterprise/S seems to bypass even that, and only require Dual Core CPU + ~15 GB SystemDriveSize
This seems to be a curious thing - with the Client builds, I will always get these occasional huge pauses and hangs, crashes with copying between drives/usb... and not a single one so far with Server. Starting to think it HAS to be down to the requirement difference.
Option 1 from my Win 11 boot & upgrade fix is based on making setup.exe believe it is installing server, server does not check for the new win 11 requirements but still has its own requirements but those hardly cause any problems. Maybe IoT EnterpriseS does but non S still checks for the TPM and such: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...canary-channel-zn_release.86882/#post-1787998
Soon Due to a blackout (health issues) last night i missed the TURLs by @adguard, will generate new ones asap