About 18 months ago I purchased a Asustor Lockerstor 2 Gen 2 AS6702T and whilst I like a lot of the hardware features it comes with, I dislike the ADM OS.
It maybe just me but I found the OS to be overcomplicated so I installed alternative OS’s and the last one I tried was Proxmox.
They all had their pro’s and con’s but as I’m used to Windows, boring I know, I was curious when I accidently came across a video on YouTube about Windows Lite.
After delving deeper I discovered the video was referring to Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC which is basically a very cut down version of Windows 11 that Microsoft sell to business’s and doesn’t come with all the bloat, in fact it doesn’t have the Microsoft Store or Terminal for instance but they can be added.
Now because it’s aimed for business’s then getting a licence can be tricky but believe it or not I manged to purchase a working licence for £3.30.
I learnt whilst sourcing info that the Windows 10 version of this will get security updates until 2032 and W11 will be even longer and the only updates are for security and not features, as it hardy comes with any lol, so the OS really is focused on productivity for business’s.
This won’t be for everybody but if you’re thinking about a different OS for your NAS or for a NAS you are building then this may be for you especially if you are used to the way Windows works.
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