Considering that 4GB RAM was sufficient till win 11 came with the newer requirement of 8GB minimum (even though these days still new devices with 11 Home pre-installed are sold with just 4GB ram) 4GB is fine to run 10 on (whatever SKU and (IoT) Enterprise 2021 LTSC is not significant/noticeable lighter compared to the other 1904x SKUs). Debloating is just a hype and can and probably will cause future problems.
Hello everyone, Although I had always done a clean install of LTSC 2019 and avoided the 1809 deletion bug, MS wanted to move on and forget about 1809 asap. Now that I am using LTSC 2021, Is this 21h2 19044 version turning out to be best all around LTSB/LTSC for stability, newer cpu and peripheral support, and new games? thanks
I was thinking about buying Halo (for PC) but you have to login to MS to play it. Is this a bad idea since I'm using LTSC via KMS_VL_ALL?
The activation part? No. However, since you need Microsoft Store and several other dependencies to buy Halo on PC, you've to install them beforehand. Plus, depending on your GPU vendor, you might lose access to a number of enhancements from the driver due to the older base version of Windows.
I'd be buying the game from Steam, but after doing some digging I believe Xbox Live components need to be installed and I'm not going to bother doing that. Anyway, thanks.
I would stay on a LTSB 2016 14393 v. 1607 getting nearly 4 years of extended support up October 2026. Overally it would be a heavier than Windows 8.1 while LTSC 2021 would be surely heavy as remarked implicitly by @Enthousiast. Anyway that CPU is quite slow even for normal browsing on modern web pages, plus 8 GB (and a SSD) would be mandatory for Windows 10. I own an old notebook with N3540 2.16Ghz, 8GB RAM, SSD currently on Windows 8.1 Pro and I am planning that path, too. But I am not optimist about the net-net result in terms of decent performance. These CPUs are essentially Atoms and were good with WIndows XP, acceptable on Windows 7... but rebranded for late Windows 8.x builds with so-so user experience. Not sure whether a Linux Mint would be a better choice. Trying to optimize a stripped-down LTSC 2021 will not get produce the expected results you are hoping in terms of user experience. Stay with an older kernel such as that LTSB as the best acceptable choice.
Hello, On my laptop with Intel duo core i7-3520M with 8 GB RAM and SATA SSD, LTSC 2021 boots up in 14 seconds.
for me ltsc 2021 on core2duo with samsung 870 evo cold boot 7 seconde ( telemetry disabled using cis benchmark security )
Please don't. Maybe I disabled too much service and scheduled task which I don't need in order to achieve this. Besides I flashed a modified bios too. After all everyone's needs different and according to those particular needs boot times can be different. But my MSI Pro DP21 11M mini pc boots up in 16.5 seconds after all optimisations I have made