It installed itself on any Win 10 machine I saw (most of which run Pro), except those running Enterprise (or LTSC/LTSB), or an education license.

Er, I heard that junk doesn’t install itself on “Pro for Workstations,” but I’m not certain and even then that’s another hundred dollars more expensive than Pro.

And even Enterprise still comes with a lot of junk that, like, 90% of users won’t need. Windows AR? Paint 3D? And so on… half the things in the start menu of a stock Windows 10 Pro install are either crap like Candy Crush, fluff like 3D viewer, or niche like the Windows AR thing.

The worst part about this is that there’s definitely a middle ground between not including anything and pushing crap on people — both nearly every Linux distro I have ever seen, as well as Apple nail that balance, and to be frank with the App Store or Microsoft Store and such I really don’t see the need to include hardly anything.

You do get obtrusive telemetry (Cortana is a good example), but you avoid Candy Crush et al.

You can disable some of the telemetry during install as well.

Just run any of the reclaim series. Pure gold if you ask me.

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1

That looks like fork of https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

You're correct that they aren't preinstalled, but once you connect to the internet they will be downloaded and installed automatically.