alt Hacker NewsThis happens in a lot of software in the Windows world, too. As soon as you run it on a non-Home SKU you’re suddenly The Enterprise, even as a home-gamer.
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dragonwriter • 11/04/2025
I’ve used Pro (or Ultimate under Win 7) instead of Home for my personal devices since sometime in the XP era and literally never experienced this with anything.
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Windows is gating a lot of basic configuration shit behind enterprise configs like Group Policies now, specifically so that the people slumming it on Home get all the ads, spyware, mandatory updates, stealthily enabled AI features, etc.