9:00 FYI there is a small thing you might wanna know. Hyper-V is a layer 1 hyper visor like VMware ESXi (not VMware Workstation or player) while virtual box is a Layer 2 hyper visor like VMware Workstation. There is a small performance difference between the 2 because a layer 1 vm speaks directly to the hardware while a layer 2 first goes through the main OS before having the hardware connected to the VM
as someone who does IT, I think the two editions are really well named. Home edition is definitely the home edition - it's a great fit for the vast majority of people to use at home. Pro edition genuinely is pro - it's meant for businesses or for definite power user that just can't do with the home edition.
As someone else who does IT, I also think so. I really like his approach to the topics. Everyone gets picked up from knowing nothing to „I understand what this thing does and what I could use it for.“. My thoughts always went „you could have added X and Y and technically Z is not that simple you need to think about B…“ No. He explains enough for everyone to get into the topic and explore the rabbit hole themselves and learn more. This could really spark an interest in IT in many people. Maybe some day, thanks to videos like this, we can stop asking: „did you try and restart the device?“
@@deathbringer2000 7 pro is probably the best windows 7 edition, at least back in the day. I don't know of any exclusive feature making Ultimate worth going out of your way to upgrade If I'm missing something, please let me know. I usually install pro on old PC repairs, I may consider doing ultimate if u have a point I can get behind
How do I get mine i mean my laptop has genuine windows 10 and i want to update to 11 but i don't know if my key will passed on or not, so do i make this work
@Digvijay Singh The key will pass on. If my windows 7 key works, your windows 10 key will as well. Its a free update. Just make sure you are signed into the same Microsoft account you were using for win 10 or are using the same computer when you update to windows 11. If you are just updating though windows update it will also just automatically work.
One feature I really like about pro (from several years ago; this may be different now) which I recommend people be really careful about before enabling: the ability to indefinitely delay Windows Updates. You should regularly install these updates, but I donʼt want my computer to randomly reboot itself over night; Iʼve lost more data to Windows Update closing programs when I wasnʼt looking than I have to malware.
@@rend43 Huh, okay. I last used it in the 8 or 10 era, and you needed to do something special (group policy?) to make it not restart overnight when you werenʼt looking.
It definitely got better even in windows 10 with time, the last time I've been forced to update windows was probably 4 years ago. But yes, it was horribly annoying in the beginning
RDP, Hyper-V, Sandbox, etc. are all worthwhile for more advanced users. Hyper-V can be enabled with a registry change and a command line input, but the others are truly locked behind Pro.
@@mrenesshs7698 VNC is not the same thing as RDP. RDP is actual virtualization, and is generally faster with less delay. VNC just mirrors the display. QEMU and particularly KVM are fine on Linux, yeah. But quite a lot of things are *not* fine on Linux, and so having a level 1 hypervisor on Windows is very useful. Windows Hypervisor is considered the best emulation software available Windows wise, and second only to bare metal. Even more efficient than QEMU. I do use Linux. I have a dual-booting laptop with Windows 11 and Endeavour (An Arch distro.) w/ KDE Plasma, I have many Linode servers running Arch, a Bash Bunny 2 w/ Debian running bare-metal, a few VMs of various OSes (including Arch running on my iPhone, Fedora on my Windows PC, etc.), and OtherOS running some Ubuntu flavor on my PS3.
@@mrenesshs7698 XRDP is also fine, a bit slower than a regular RDP client because it's using an X-Server to relay the graphics as if it was VNC, but oh well. It doesn't have a Wayland fork that I know of.
I've been using the pro versions ever since Windows 2000. I may not use all of the features, but it's always nice to know they're there if I need them. And, since i'm a builder, i've always gotten the OEM versions.
As the Wintel engineer, I still have gone with Pro upgrade, but also tell people to consider the upgrade only if they _really_ need some extra features, mostly people don't use OS to the extinct of doing command line or fine configuration stuff. Also, is good to see Windows 11 has gone further than Windows 10, but still not convinced to use this so-called graphical enhancement over the previous version. This video puts everything properly and clearly, kudos. Just to add, VNC could be _really_ annoying either it is Real, Tiger, or whatever. It works, sure. Until it doesn't
@@tpkowastaken thanks, I will give it a try at some point. It took me ages (like 10 years) or so to come back to Windows from Debian, so the last one was XP, and still tried to made it look like earlier versions to keep it simpler. When you have some stuff at work, you just want to relax at home. Unfortunately, too tired for having it for a hobby again, but hope that will change (probably, not)
I was using TeamViewer a few years ago and then they started blocking me because they felt I was using it in a business. I was using my laptop to connect to my home computer. At this point, I use Google Remote Desktop.
I was doing the same, connecting to my home PC from work or even from my laptop. When they mis-defined this as commercial activity and demanded a license I switched to NoMachine. Does the job for me 😉
I always get pro. if I can help it. My laptop came with home I'm not gonna go out go out of my way But anytime I do a new build it's pro. more features easier to get rid of unwanted futures. Always grate stuff.
always used pro and will continue to do so... I've lost count of the times I've tried fixing friends computers and ran into obstacles due to them being various home editions
Hey Thio, Would you be able to cover the Windows Security 'LSA Protection Off' Warning Bug. There is action I can take. I got it recently, and I don't know what to do 😶🌫️
I use Parsec to remotely access my Windows 10 Pro desktop machine, because it's incredibly low-latency, and acts very much as though you're sitting right there at the keyboard. It does have a couple of quirks -- if there's no monitor attached to your computer it won't work, and if there's no mouse attached it will not let your local mouse remotely-control the machine's mouse-cursor. So it's no good for "headless" machines. But it's so low-latency that you can actually play videos or even games on your remote computer as if you're sitting right there. (It requires a very good GPU to do this, BTW.). So it might not work for everyone, but it's a very good alternative to Remote Desktop, nonetheless.
Anydesk is a great alternative for remote desktop and even TeamViewer You can set it to auto start with the computer Make password for it so you can get un intended access Settings to optimize latency which do make a difference in slow connections Block user's input so that the controlled pc peripherals won't interfere with you And you can run it without installing it
There is one major difference between RDP and the other options: RDP is a virtual desktop/session, the others mirror your console, the console being where you are with physical display/keyboard/mouse. There's pros and cons for each. Windows workstations only allow one active session at a time, so if you RDP into a machine that already has someone logged in at the console, you'll kick them off the console. If you are logging in as the same account they were on, you'll take over their session virtually. If a different account, their session will suspend much like it would with Switch User. This can cause problems if you want to share a screen with someone, though you can use Quick Assist with them. The alternatives, at least for most, only let you share the console with the other user if someone is already logged in. But then you are sharing the screen with them which could be what you want.
The best feature of Windows Pro is that you can completely disable automatic updates or what I prefer get a notification whenever there's a new update and then you can decide when you want to start it. And with MAS is doesn't makes a difference if you choose Pro or Home.
You don’t need in alternative for group policy editor. You can get it on home edition by just putting two line in command prompt. You can find the two lines really quick online and then you have the real local group policy editor
Windows 10 LTSB is the only version even vaguely worth it, and you still need to get in there and forcibly disable as much of the monitoring as you can.
@@igorthelight I know that, You might know that Viruses & Malware can detect that you are using a VM & bypass VM to get access to your real PC. I was asking if that VM defends that. Anyways, thanks for the remainder :)
@@5H4D0WOfficial True! There are some viruses that can do that. Just a few nasty ones. It's not the common thing that most viruses could do tho ;-) So updating your system AND your VM helps to mitigate that risk.
If your needs are barebones, then Home is fine. Check your e-mail, type a letter, print a page, watch RU-vid, etc. If you do more than that, like, Entertainment, Gameplay, Programming, Video & Photo editing, than Pro is a must, no question. If you spend less than an hour or two a day on your computer, then home is for you. Funny thing is the "Hour or two" people are usually the one's who've bought those ready made computers with the OS pre-installed anyway, so depends on how much you spent to which version you get.
He could have picked from any number of similar RDP type solutions, TV and VNC are perhaps the most well known. Equally, AD has been a bit flaky recently, and free user accounts now seem to time out at 10 mins or less making it much closer to garbage...
I think I would've just been fine with just standard windows, I just got pro because the tutorial I was watching to install windows on my new pc told me to select it.
another difference is that the Pro edition supports upto 2TB "RAM" and the Home supports upto 128GB. It doesn't matter to most people as literally no one gets above 128GB of RAM.
I'am using Windows 10 Pro but debloated and I see no problems with it. All tho I wish it to be simple in design because, it is kinda hard for me to find some settings and features.
5:41 Can you do all three? Save to file, to MS and print it. If I had to choose I would do save to file and back that file up on a USB. I trust that more then Microsoft.
Bruh i really appreciate your videos. I was wondering if maybe we could possibly rap about something important. Obviously important to me, however may be as well for you if you could maybe advise me. lmk.
Windows Pro form 11 is not as apparent on the surface as Windows Pro for XP was, where after using Pro with everything being more capable and option-loaded, even File Explorer, it was actually difficult to go back and use XP Home edition (of course, by Update 3 for XP, Home edition was basically the Pro edition, where all of Pro's obvious 'surface' features were added to Home). Having said that, as a System's Administrator, PRO edition is an absolute must-have for security. It is incredible the security hacks even trusted team members innocently try doing, which used to introduce a virus across our network.
Another thing I've noticed about Quick Assist is that it seems to run under the user context. So if you try to run something as admin via it, your session goes black and the user has to approve the UAC prompt.
The problem I had/have with Sandboxie Plus (and this is a me problem - I'm not necessarily blaming the software) is that I never had enough confidence to actually use it as intended. E.g. I downloaded a sketchy file and wanted to use Sandboxie, but it just felt so... janky...? Ended up using a VM
I recently upgraded from pirated Win 10 Enterprise to win 10 ent LTSC with a genuine key from a webesite that sells these because they had it on huge sale from I think 50€ to just like around 13€ so I had to get it right away and I like it, I needed a fresh reinstall of windows anyway so saved a backupimage of my old OS drive and also first tested it out by installing it on a spare HDD and was surprised how fast it was and how low the RAM usage is, and it felt like it was on SSD for real and installing microsoft store with powershell and for downloding stuff like that I needed and wanted without the bloatware is amazing for a user like me, so installing it on my NVMe OS drive and I like it in general, just need to install an app sometime that would be already included in normal windows versions but that's just a very minor thing, even got official .ISOs for the older LTSB and LTSC, the LTSB will be useful for some of my retro computers and such where I active it with just microsoft activation scrips which is pretty amazing, tried microsoft server 2022 and activated, the drivers were more of a problem, had to "hack" the NIC driver .inf file and install it with driver signature enforcement disabled because intel supports the win10 but not server version with the driver LOL.
In Turkiye win11 pro price is under 1 dollar 8 turkish liras im buyed nd using with any problem. So cheap because Türkiye is have lotts of inflation so sellers need to down price
I don't feel using Hyper-V and got tired of using Oracle VBox, so slow on some scenario even if I do have lots of system resource to use, so I switched to VMware Pro, a little expensive for my liking but at least I can get the job done much faster.
I only use the Professional Edition of Windows. You don't really have to pay 100 Bucks for an Upgrade, there are Alternatives to get a Windows 10/11 Professional Key cheaper.
I will say hyper-V on windows pro is super disappointing. It is a level 1 hyper visor which is great but compared to qemu/kvm on linux, the drivers and support for a wide array of operating systems is just not there. The only OS that will reliably work in hyper V from my experience is windows 10/11. Ubuntu and a few other Linux distros are technically supported but I experienced a ton of virtual driver/firmware issues when using hyper-v. Also can't do pcie passthrough with hyper-v unless you're using windows server. Still hyper-v could definitely be useful to a developer that just need a test platform.
Except you don't really need to pay $100. There are several sites that sell Windows keys, I'm not going to list a particular one, but you can get Windows Pro for under $20. I have it on my computers and it really is worth it.
2:12 I use Windows Home edition and I have Windows Hypervisor Platform (I turned it on in Windows Features settings). I'm sure it works because it is required for my Android studio emulators to work. Now does this not mean HyperV is available for Home users too?
Tbh maybe remote desktop is useful to me but it also has alternative called TeamViewer. I think for a gamer there is no reason to get the Pro edition or any other regular user.
I'm pretty sure you can get a legit Win Pro license for much less than $200. I remember watching videos from channels like Linus Tech Tips and other PC builders where they show sites where you can buy one cheaply.
We are using pro for our company mainly for our domain network. But aside that, one thing factor is customer support of Microsoft, because they won't help you at all if the product you bought does not match according to your nature of business, heck, there's one time we had an activation issues, when we called MS, they can't help us because that pro OS we bought is intended for Tech/Soft dev business as we are engineering firm. Is that even required as all pro Os same?
I use windows pro due to having control over updates. But as windows 10 buffed out, i find i don't need to edit or do anything with regards to updates.
best is trial version of win10 enterprise, rearm until no more, re-install, seriously. full feature set and allow security only call home (lower than basic)
My WIndows 10 Pro is still from upgrading my Windows 7 Pro. Windows 10 cannot upgrade on my PC because of the CPU being too old. There used to be a maximum RAM limit in the very old version of Windows home edition. I am not sure if that is still a thing these days. Been using Windows since 3.1
how do you use things like windows sandbox and those other things? when i search it into cortana it just shows "turn windows feature on or off"? (i search both sandbox and windows sandbox)
Even better than Pro is Education. Education has all the features Enterprise has. If you're a student and your school offers a cheap upgrade to Windows Education, it's absolutely worth it.
