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
I wanna know if IoT LTSC 2021 is available in fr-fr and fr-ca...or just in en-us ?? Caus' the 2 links (MVS Direct ISOs) on the OP aren't working... Any help would be appreciated
For me they worked fine. download en-US EVAL iso + fr-fr exe put them in the same folder run exe profit
I search for that "UUP->ISO converter" and....not sure what I have to download... think I've found it..