So it's either install Russian rootkit or enter yourself into botnet database?
Win10 Permanent Activation
Hunter Wilson
Leo Wood
Why in the literal hell would you install a server edition of Windows to use as a gaymin/desktop PC? I don't need a server manager to download my Linux ISOs and play muh roms in Dolphin-emu.
Jayden Torres
I'll explain it:
every Win version has different restrictions on how much ram you can use, whether you can turn off telemetry, whether you're forced to do updates etc.
Windows Server 2016 Database has the most relaxed of all.
You can just turn the Server popup off and use it. It comes with everything you need including DirectX but without automatic driver installation (which is a good thing imao) and without consumer applications like the metro apps and other garbage.
So it's actually better suited for a gaymin/desktop PC than any other version of Win 10/Server 2016
Andrew Bennett
wasn't windows 10 free/officially on tpb/allowed anywhere & everywhere at some point X years ago?
Tyler Watson
Only for the first year of Wangblows 10's release and on legal channels
Angel Hall
My activation is permanent enough with standard KMS and vlmcsd. No need to natively run Someone Else's Code(tm) natively, as vlmcsd can do its magic within a VM. vlmcsd is also FOSS. Also I don't tattle on myself to MS with some "digital license" bullshit.
Either set up vlmcsd in Virtual Box (there's a boot floppy image you can use) -> set it up to run at startup with 1% CPU limit and on host only network -> point slmgr to that IP, or go flash your router with OpenWRT -> set up vlmcsd as a LAN side service daemon -> configure dnsmasq to resolve _vlmcs._tcp.your.domain.name SRV record to the router's IP (and all KMS channel products automagically activate on your LAN).
Joseph Cooper
This user gets it. Server Datacenter is the most unleashed Windows. Performance differences are knobs, not hard coded. The only thing Server is missing without replacement is Windows Store and UWP, which frankly are cancer anyway. Also don't forget to enable "Disable sending AVS data for KMS activations" or something in group policy, under computer configuration, administrative templates, Windows components, software protection platform. Windows since 8 has sent client KMS activation data to MS automatically.