lol. No kidding. Man I'm glad I don't use anything but the OS 10, which I've heavily modified to work as in the background as windows 98. Registry edits, group policy tweaks, and other changes to make the OS completely subservient. I'll never buy another Microshits product again.
Once SteamOS fully releases and win10 is as obsolete as windows 7, only then will I switch to the SteamOS.
Windows 10 LTSC until 2032. No Windows Store, no Cortana, no ads.
Best thing is it doesn't change.
I don't want to one day have the entire UI swapped on me where now it's designed around AI watching my webcam so I can use hand gestures to go back a webpage. I don't want every panel to be 20% translucent.
Every time anybody changes the Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer interface they make it worse.
Where would one be able to find a win10 LTSC without giving jeetrosoft another dime? Have you had any issues with any compatibility of certain software for win11 or does it all map over? I’m somewhat ignorant of how backwards compatible win11 is to win10.
You can have it do hardware activation, then you wipe drive and reinstall from ISO. Lots of other options.
The IoT LTSC is good until 2032. ISO isn't public from Microsoft but when I did it the mirrors all agreed on the hash so probably is legit.
The only problems I've had are no clock on the lock screen, but there's probably some games that break or will in the future years - I'll just use linux if that happens.
Linux Mint is a sweet alternative to try until SteamOS. Based on the same architecture (More or less) and will likely be in more homes soon due to MS' constant screwing around with being outside the Window and not the bouncer to looking out of it xD
I'm trying Linux Mint Xfce on an old craptop, but it has a few bugs. Nothing system-breaking. It's usable after figuring how to avoid tripping on them.
I have no interest in learning how to use commands. All ''fixes'' I could find involved using commands and none of the copy-pasted fixes worked.
Might try the ''normal'' ( Cinnamon ) Mint version to see if it had less problems with my old laptop. I'm pretty sure it can run it fine but I wanted to aim to make it as fast as something with a mechanical hard drive can go.
Worth a try. The thing was headed for recycling anyway.
Oh and the mandatory long complex password is so annoying. Thankfully you can dissable having to input it when the computer wakes from sleep.
Oddly enough most of my Linux Mint training comes from running problems by Copilot xD
Not kidding, it's a useful tool and understands why people are shifting to Linux from Windows (No sales or inferences of it being a bad decision - yet anyways).
Had the odd sound driver bug and a few others, but Copilot gives good clean advice to help sort it out (It can still be a bit hit and miss to the solution, but it gets there with persistence).
lol. No kidding. Man I'm glad I don't use anything but the OS 10, which I've heavily modified to work as in the background as windows 98. Registry edits, group policy tweaks, and other changes to make the OS completely subservient. I'll never buy another Microshits product again.
Once SteamOS fully releases and win10 is as obsolete as windows 7, only then will I switch to the SteamOS.
Windows 10 LTSC until 2032. No Windows Store, no Cortana, no ads.
Best thing is it doesn't change.
I don't want to one day have the entire UI swapped on me where now it's designed around AI watching my webcam so I can use hand gestures to go back a webpage. I don't want every panel to be 20% translucent.
Every time anybody changes the Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer interface they make it worse.
Where would one be able to find a win10 LTSC without giving jeetrosoft another dime? Have you had any issues with any compatibility of certain software for win11 or does it all map over? I’m somewhat ignorant of how backwards compatible win11 is to win10.
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You can have it do hardware activation, then you wipe drive and reinstall from ISO. Lots of other options.
The IoT LTSC is good until 2032. ISO isn't public from Microsoft but when I did it the mirrors all agreed on the hash so probably is legit.
The only problems I've had are no clock on the lock screen, but there's probably some games that break or will in the future years - I'll just use linux if that happens.
Clock works on mine and I don't recall doing anything to get that working.
I'll say that I don't expect game compatibility issues for a good long while given just how long I was able to get away with Windows 7.
IIRC I found the ISO over on the MyDigitalLife forum, so go snoop there and there's a few other guides floating around on how to get started with it.
Linux Mint is a sweet alternative to try until SteamOS. Based on the same architecture (More or less) and will likely be in more homes soon due to MS' constant screwing around with being outside the Window and not the bouncer to looking out of it xD
I'm trying Linux Mint Xfce on an old craptop, but it has a few bugs. Nothing system-breaking. It's usable after figuring how to avoid tripping on them.
I have no interest in learning how to use commands. All ''fixes'' I could find involved using commands and none of the copy-pasted fixes worked.
Might try the ''normal'' ( Cinnamon ) Mint version to see if it had less problems with my old laptop. I'm pretty sure it can run it fine but I wanted to aim to make it as fast as something with a mechanical hard drive can go.
Worth a try. The thing was headed for recycling anyway.
Oh and the mandatory long complex password is so annoying. Thankfully you can dissable having to input it when the computer wakes from sleep.
Oddly enough most of my Linux Mint training comes from running problems by Copilot xD
Not kidding, it's a useful tool and understands why people are shifting to Linux from Windows (No sales or inferences of it being a bad decision - yet anyways).
Had the odd sound driver bug and a few others, but Copilot gives good clean advice to help sort it out (It can still be a bit hit and miss to the solution, but it gets there with persistence).
I already use that on my laptop