Hi /g/. You guys problably heard this question before, as surely

>>57849759
Just go for Education. You almost definitely don't need to be running a server OS as doing so can cause minor issues.

>>57849759
Install Solus

>>57849759
It's a pain to update Win 10 Enterprise.

>>57849810

>You almost definitely don't need to be running a server OS as doing so can cause minor issues.

What issues?

Since Edu dont have Cortana, it is tempting to install one, but I also heard that Server 2016 have greater degree of control from the user side. Also heard about people using it as everyday desktop OS, even for playing games.

>>57849820

Distro with yet another different package manager (eopkg) and desktop environment (Budgie)? Whats the point, when there are tested and trusted distros as Debian?

Still, this thread is about Windows, not Linux distros.

>>57849872
It may have more control but it's control geared toward setting up a server. Are you setting up a server or a desktop?

>>57849810
>You almost definitely don't need to be running a server OS as doing so can cause minor issues
Yet /g/ insists on recommending people to install the server OS called Linux...

>>57849759
I suggest Education as Server 2016 require further configuration such as the setting of the sound service in services.msc(otherwise no sound)

>>57850059

Actually, there are desktop orientated distros and server orientated distros, so...

Mint for example, is clearly desktop orientated.

>>57850020

Desktop, true. "Control" as about installing components you need/want, instead of coming in loaded with everything. If I recall correctly, at least some first versions of Server 2016 were coming without GUI at first, so people had to install it via PowerShell first.

>>57849834

How so?

>>57849759

Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
https://archive.is/OBGB1

Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
https://archive.is/tW6fu

Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
https://archive.is/2XIvX
https://archive.is/qLRZx

Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
even after related settings are turned off:
https://archive.is/thsGd
https://archive.is/sz1nt
https://archive.is/g3QdQ
https://archive.is/ko469
https://archive.is/l6pmO
https://archive.is/zK93U

Micrcrosoft automatically downloads Windows 10 on PCs running
Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (between 3.5GB and 6GB), even if
users have not opted-in:
http://archive.is/CEvKh

Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
https://archive.is/vhjwm
https://archive.is/2jehd
https://archive.is/KQsBh

Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
https://archive.is/MB0Yy

> Over 82 billion photos viewed.
> Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
> 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
> Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
> Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.

>>57850339

Oh, look, parrot flew in to sing the very same pasta.

Assuming your school doesn't provide you with 7 Pro keys as well (mine does) or you have Skylake, go for Server 2016. There's a guide for turning Server 2012 into a workstation OS so you can use that to setup 2016. If something you need doesn't work on Server 2016 then install Education.

>>57850392

It does provide keys for 7 Pro and 8.1 Pro as well, but I do have Skylake on my new PC.

Skylakes dont like 7 for some reason?

>>57850059
>I don't know the first thing about Linux so I'll just say stupid shit and hope no one picks up!
You'd think that when you not only have the source code for something, but also ample documentation and manpages that people would read. But I guess it's just easier to shitpost aint it

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>>57850498

>>57849759

Since you didn't specify what you are going to do with that machine I'll assume it's a desktop:

Try Devuan with xorg and fluxbox. Comfy as fuck!

>>57850590

Actually, it have to be Windows in this case.

>>57850564
You've just proven >>57850498's point, this one an easy one

Just get a Desktop since you be playing vidia on it 90% of the time

Just get regular 10 Enterprise.

>>57849759

Server is nice

Some applications won't install on it though. So better get an iPad you nigglet.

>>57849759
Education.

>>57850214
>How so?
You have to download a full installation iso from MSDN to update major versions.

>>57851901

I would have to buy/pirate it, when Education is already here, ready to install.

>>57852087

>You have to download a full installation iso from MSDN to update major versions.

I thought that this would be true only for LTSB versions.

>>57852243
Unfortunately not. I had to run through the process a little while back on my workstation.

>>57850059
>OS called Linux

You do realize that there are both desktop and server oriented, linux based OSs right?

>>57850389
>ad hominem

>>57852357

Dude, this pasta is being posted on regular manner, in almost every Windows related thread, no matter if person in question ask about anything related to privacy and such. Over and over. Even after people pointed out how links in questions are about speculations, analysis of technical preview versions, overinterpretation or plain outdated.

Mindlessly copied over and over, without thinking about the contents of the pasta itself.

If a person post on /g/, there are like 95% chances that they know about alternatives and when they want to use Windows, its because thats what they need.

No point in acting lke Gentoo Witness. Especialyl since original question was about choosing between two versions.

Anybody else?