Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032 and free to activate.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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And what does that accomplish? Delaying the actual problem to 2032?
It gives you 6 years to transition to a better OS. Or to become CEO of Microslop and improve things.
It's honestly great, even for me who only boot into windows once every few months.
I wouldn't say "great". But great in comparison to 11 😁 But who needs 6 years of transition? The run-of-the-mill-user with office and Firefox could just switch and not even notice it. Despite libreoffice loading much quicker.
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Gives 6 more years for Adobe and my online games to start supporting Linux D: (or the Adobe alternatives to become more suitable for professional use)
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To people still on Windows 11 go back to Windows 10 some way somehow if you really are set on not using Linux for whatever reason
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Oh no!
Anyway..
I use Linux BTW.
Setup = download Linux iso > flash memory device > boot > install.
Where do the complications come in?
The complication comes from when I need to use proprietary windows-only software for whatever professional or recreative reasons.
Free (as in freedom) software is great for 90% of situations, but there are things free software just can not do.
Wine exists but it's mostly focused on video-games, and honestly, it's such a pain to get a windows program to run on wine that I prefer to just have a second SSD with Faildos and boot from it when I eventually need to use such programs. Which I make sure to unplug the ethernet cable when I do.
Bottles has made wine a lot better. Also, I keep a Windows in a VM, isolated where it belongs.
Unfortunately VMs aren't a solution for my use case since I need no latency realtime audio or GPU acceleration
I just vm'd my entire win 7 machine with no nic.
Unfortunately VMs aren't a solution for my use case since I need no latency realtime audio or GPU acceleration
ugh. Get that. For that use case I actually ended up getting a cheap little KVM and migrated my win7 build to a rackmounted box with a CRU. No NIC, I KVM over when doing data recovery (or playing bullfrog games)
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Where do the complications come in?
When drive doesn't automount and you have to manually edit fstab file