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by haiku2077 355 days ago
I've been looking into this. Any app that currently works should keep working, but new versions (especially new games, or new patches for games) may not. New versions of GPU drivers, DirectX and so on were a particular area of issue.

Good choice for a machine built for a particular purpose that doesn't need to run any new software.
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WarOnPrivacy 355 days ago
>> I'm just going to run LTSC in a VM.

> Any app that currently works should keep working, but new versions (especially new games, or new patches for games) may not. New versions of GPU drivers, DirectX and so on were a particular area of issue.

To be clear, you're looking to game on a VM?

ftr: Posting this from my Firefox remote app. Host VM is not LTSC however.

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haiku2077 355 days ago
I was looking at it for a racing simulator rig specifically. I basically wanted to install some simulators on it and never have to do any maintenance. From my research it seemed like it would work for any legacy offline sims but not online stuff like iRacing. I might end up dual booting LTSC for offline simming and Win11 for iRacing.
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throwaway48476 355 days ago
GPU pass-through is easy enough for a gaming VM. Whether you can still use LTSC is up to the game developer.
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