Can’t run Windows 11? Don’t want to? There are surprisingly legal options

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    1 day ago

    I’ve been using 10 LTSC for a few months now, it works great with the few Windows-only apps I still use. I mainly use it to organize my media library, but it’s not had any problems with the few games I’ve installed with Kernel-level anti-cheat (Destiny 2, Delta Force)

    I had to download the Xbox Accessories app to control my Elite controller, but that’s really it.

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      You might likely run into issues with GPU (and other) windows drivers, which might stop supporting old windows 10 versions. At least that happened already with LTSC/LTSB. I expect this to happen especially when ordinary windows 10 EOL is reached.

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        Is that much of a big deal though? Running old GPU drivers is fine, other than maybe if you like playing the latest AAA games down the road.

        I mean eventually it will be an issue, but for a long time I imagine they will work just fine.

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          Well, it just depends on your use-case. Sometimes new games or applications require newer drivers or directly a newer Windows version. This is something you just have to be aware of.

          At least that was a reason I switched LTSC Windows over to Enterprise for some people.

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          I’ve certainly had games stop working with older drivers. Older games, even.

          But maybe.

          Personally I just moved to Linux with Proton, but is not for everyone.