which is similar to
Ubuntu, Node.js etc calling it it LTS = Long Term Support
This is a build of windows targeting long term deployments and embedded system, so it's essentially a pared down version of windows to reduce memory requirements. One of those things is the microsoft store which is often needed to install certain apps without having to mess around with the command line, etc.
Anyway
I'm guessing it's similar with SUSE and other "business" distros.
https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle#server-desktop-eol-ol...
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life...
Why doesn't the README file explain what this repository is doing?
OP, what did you hope to accomplish with this submission?
The lack of support on LTSC is the least baffling thing going on here but I'm open to the possibility that I'm misunderstanding something....
It explains exactly what it's doing.
"Microsoft Store package for Windows LTSC."
It provides a Microsoft Store package for LTSC builds, and an install script that allows it to actually work. Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled, and Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.
Why would you need a package to wrap a website? Wouldn't the website be accessible on a LTSC build, even if the official package isn't available?
If this is filling a highly useful role that I'm admittedly oblivious to, why are there only three commits in the project history?
(Best I can tell, this is a personal project that somehow made it to HN front page)
There's no source code, it's a just a bunch of binaries and an install/uninstall script.
Edit: I should clarify that the link provided in the repo is not the microsoft store that the apps refer to. This would be a better link https://apps.microsoft.com
I'm not seeing those attached to the repo linked here, and wonder if thats part of the reason why it wont work on older LTSC versions.
No, it's not that it isn't "preinstalled", the Microsoft Store is literally not supported on LTSC, by design. LTSC was never intended to run the Store. The original use case for LTSC was for ATMs, industrial control equipment, hospitals, and the like, where IoT wasn't appropriate, where you needed the ability to run full desktop applications.
> Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.
Yeah that's because the Store was never supposed to run on LTSC. It's not supported. Why would they offer an official way to re-enable it? The whole point of LTSC is that it doesn't include the store.
If someone cobbled together an ugly hack to shoehorn it in, by definition it could break at any time.
Which it has.
There is no customer for this.
Lots of people including myself run LTSC to minimize Microsoft shitware.
Why not? I could spin up a repo called "Bradford Store" or "Google Store" or whatever I want. The maintainer just wanted "Microsoft Store"
> Why doesn't the README file explain what this repository is doing?
It does, and also answers your first question.
> OP, what did you hope to accomplish with this submission?
Because they knew HN would be interested. Same as every other OP that submits something.
> I'm open to the possibility that I'm misunderstanding something....
It does seem to be the case.
My gaming PC runs Windows 11 LTSC.
I don't want to overpromise anything, but ProtonDB is if anything conservative; I find things working better than expected more often than I am disappointed by a listing now. Games with heavy anti-cheat for online multiplayer are often not a good bet, and really old stuff is sometimes not very well supported (although even so, surprisingly well), but Linux gaming quietly snuck up when nobody was looking and one step at a time has become something where I fairly casually just expect games to work in Linux now, without me having to do much more than poke Steam to use Proton manually sometimes.
I suppose it's a fair play if you're contractually obligated to play Riot-published games or something, but... man. I've had better performance playing games on DXVK since 2016. Windows is a heavy hog.
Systems are snappy on 6th gen i7 laptops.
LOL, I don't think that's how you meant it, but 100% agreed those are some of the first things to go when you wanna have fun in a car.
Windows LTSC is an amazing experience compared to vanilla windows, it's actually a decent OS that you can more or less control and you don't have to spend a weekend debloating and figuing out how to rip out cortana and ads and all the other garbage.
Yes, my sanity.
I had a very Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no! Anyway..." moment reading the headline.
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