Reasons to stick with LTSC 2019 or 2021?

KingLF5 · Jul 20, 2025

James Bond 007 said: ↑

I am running Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and Windows Server 2019 (and also Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2) on my PCs (based on motherboards approaching 9 years old) and the systems work fine.

As they work pretty well for me and are supported until January 2029, I see no reason to go to (IoT) LTSC 2021 at this time, even though I have it in a partition on my main computer.

Windows 10 LTSB 2016 might be lighter, but as someone stated it no longer supports newer Nvidia graphics cards (RTX 3xxx / 4xxx cards require Windows 10 1809 / LTSC 2019 or later) so I can't use it on my main system with a RTX 3060 Ti.

I do have LTSB 2016 running on an older computer with a motherboard more than 10 years old and it works fine there.
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I believe there are Windows 7 drivers for RTX 3xxx series out there that work.

LTSC 2019 is pretty good, installed it on two Thinkpads (e485 & e14 gen 2) and this 12 inch dell convertible with a 7th gen core i7 I'm typing on right now

James Bond 007 · Jul 22, 2025

KingLF5 said: ↑

I believe there are Windows 7 drivers for RTX 3xxx series out there that work.

LTSC 2019 is pretty good, installed it on two Thinkpads (e485 & e14 gen 2) and this 12 inch dell convertible with a 7th gen core i7 I'm typing on right now
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I am using the 474.11 Nvidia driver for Windows 7 on my Windows 7 x64 installation with RTX 3060 Ti and it works fine there.

I also use the 475.14 Nvidia driver for Windows 7 (requires a patch from canonkong) on my Windows Server 2008 R2 installation with RTX 3060 on my second computer and it also works fine there.

And yes, LTSC 2019 / Server 2019 are good, and I will continue to use them for the next several years, if not longer.

Reasons to stick with LTSC 2019 or 2021?

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