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by jpalawaga 35 days ago
From everything I've heard, running LTSC is not a good idea for a daily-driver pc. App support/compatibility is annoying and not guaranteed. I guess if you have a small set of unchanging apps that you use and that's all it could be a good pick.

Interestingly, I hear a lot of people talk about LTSC, but few talking about their positive experiences. Is this the "I'm moving to Canada," of operating systems?
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vunderba 35 days ago
It's been great for me. I have a secondary PC that's been running Windows 10 LTSC IoT for 5 years now. I’m still getting security updates but nothing else (that's a feature to me).

The only time I had an issue was when a DAW installer required me to upgrade to 22H2. I grabbed the enablement package directly and used the DISM tool to install it.

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hulitu 35 days ago
> From everything I've heard, running LTSC is not a good idea for a daily-driver pc.

With a bit of OOShut10, Windhawk, OoAppBuster and a bit of security policy (gpedit.msc) is bearable.

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thr0w 35 days ago
I run it, it's good other than WSL.
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lproven 35 days ago
[[citation needed]]

I tried it last year, was impressed, and have now moved all my Windows partitions to it. I don't use it much (mainly Mac and Linux here) but it does all I need and more. I have not seen a single problem. Everything I've tried works fine, even installing the Windows Store and a Store app. (Which then complained my GPU was inadequate and barfed, but it ran.)

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