I obtained access to the official ISO of this version. I edited the installation image using NTLite, included drivers, programs, the latest updates, redid the ISO, mounted it on one of the flash drives and installed it on my PC. It's working wonderfully. I installed my Audio Driver Mod and everything works perfectly.
Holy smokes, thank you so much this tip. That is the way to go, avoid any updating of the already installed setup, cleanup the current installation and backup/move all non-sys/non-prog/settings/maintenance files off it, then backup with clonezilla so it's a small file, and copy the existing install one to another older/smaller SSD/HDD, then put a new custom ISO on the primary SSD and redo all the settings and configs with updated deboating tools that work fine with the new version, and it's a good thing to have a secondary PC hooked up so you can browse the web for drivers, tools, guides, tweaks and help while setting it up, also make sure you disable internet connection when installing until you setup the hosts file, get rid of all the data sharing and privacy snooping and that's it.
It just requires a list of all tweaks so you don't forget them each time you do that, and you do this every 3-4 years, not every 6 months. I'll be "moving" from LTSB to LTSC 2019 soon, but in reality I'll keep the LTSB one forever, alive for quite some years to come, if not then it'll be backed up in a clonezilla image. New versions keep removing some features I like, particularly the GUI stuff ... if everything looks like UWP it's going to be ugly. New isn't necessairly better.
None of these have an effect on home, and many need enterprise or education skus.
And that's the only one that really matters and I, like any serious PC user with a brain that comes here for tips should use (and LTSC), so if you meant to downplay the tweak tip, then your argument is pretty weak IMO.
