Should I install Windows 10 or 11 for my new device

[chrcoluk]

W11 probably. My new laptop is still W10 but thats only because I wanted to make some final tweaks to my custom ISO before moving on to making 11 ISO's, within a month it will be running 11 with some kind of UI replacement overlay to make the UI sane. when I used to use startisback in 8, it was always very stable, so should be on a LTSC build of 11.

There is under the hood benefits (some of these are very good like the flip mode toggle for windowed games) plus Microsoft will accelerate 10's EOL in consumer land as much as they can to make things awkrawd for those staying on it.

This is coming from someone who thinks 10 finally became good after a decade and 11 is annoying to use, but even I recognise the need to move forward.

It will take some time for me to mentally drag my PC on to 11, as it did to move from 8 to 10, but the 8 to 10 was way less painful than I thought it would be, and the technical gap between 10 and 11 is far smaller than 8 to 10 was (and this time it will be office 365 to office 365 instead of office 2010 to office 365). I am hitting frustrations with borderless window games not able to use VRR, so the flip mode want will drag me over once its working well on my laptop. Also since I moved to 10 I made it so anytime something is added/removed from configuration, or some applet is installed or updated on my system, control panel changes etc., I make the change to my ISO template meaning a new install inherits the configuration. Nearly everything can be integrated on ISO's. So when I clean install 11 on my PC hopefully there is not much to do post setup.

But no question, new device, unless its a hardware blocker, put 11 (or linux) on it.

 

[DaemonForce]

making 11 ISO's, within a month it will be running 11 with some kind of UI replacement overlay to make the UI sane

Now I wonder why that would be necessary when it seems to only be an issue for creators squeezing power from-

Oh.

dosnt win 10 use 5gb of mem just to do background tasks? Maybe cull a few tasks to 4gb ?

I'm using 15% or 9.4GB. 18 tabs with three streams going in the background so I mean...That 5GB is definitely going somewhere.

For a "get things done" type of system, Win10 takes it like a champ.

 

[chrcoluk]

Now I wonder why that would be necessary when it seems to only be an issue for creators squeezing power from-
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Oh.

I dont really remove much from the install, LTSC avoids the app store bloat, and the rest of the stuff people remove, I either need or foresee myself needing at some point, and since I dont want to break my OS, I dont remove much, although disabling things is ok, as because if its done as a mistake its trivial to turn it back on again.

The main reason I have the ISO is to add things and integrate updates, drivers, so I am not spending time configuring group policies, installing apps, runtime libraries, .net, configuring settings, adding registry tunables and so on.

 

[datamaster60bk]

Hi folks, I have an old PC by today's standards Here is my system, the motherboard is a Gigabyte 990FXA UD5 with Corsair RAM DDR3 1600MHz 32gb installed a WD blue 1TB SSD for Windows 11 24H2 a Seagate hybrid HDD 2TB for Games etc. A AMD 9370 8 Core CPU stock clocked at 4.7 GHZ with liquid cooling. A Seasonic 1050 Watt PSU. An Nvidia Geforce 1050TI Gaming GPU stock settings. It will handle most lighter games at 1080p averaging 75 to 100 FPS. I mostly play American Truck Simulator and adventure games with good FPS and adequate general game performance. FPS around average 65 to 80 dropping to 50 in populated areas cities etc. I enjoy this system very much as I paid $200 CA for it in Edmonton Alberta Canada. I have been running Windows 11 on it since 2023 with no major issues. Of course I had to bypass the CPU and TPM to get Windows 11 to install. It running great today and accepts all windows updates and performs very well in spite of its age. Windows 11 has its troubles but if you configure it for your working platform it does outperform Windows 10. I am a 60 yr old PC builder for 35 yrs now and and a dedicated gamer. I offer advice and consult regularly with people who have gaming and troubleshooting issues with their PC's. It is most rewarding when they have successfully repaired their PC. Cheers and Greetings from Edmonton Alberta Canada. Eh?

 

[Harlow]

Where to purchase a license for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 (21H2)?

Gamers-outlet.net offers them, and the keysite appears to have a decent reputation

If anyone truly believes Microsoft would appoint a web site called Gamers Outlet (for goodness sake) to distribute expensive enterprise-class LTSC licenses, think again.

To quote from Ed Bott's blog on ZDNET:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-your-windows-license-legal-should-you-even-care/

"Every so often, I run across some poor benighted soul who announces that they're running Windows 10 LTSC (the Long Term Servicing Channel release). The only way to get an LTSC license is with a Windows Enterprise Volume License agreement, which is ... not cheap. Enterprise licenses are widely pirated. If you're running Windows Enterprise edition and can't tell me how you got the license, there's an excellent chance your license isn't valid."

What I don't understand is why people willingly spend $17.95 on an LTSC activation key, if it doesn't have a valid license. Why pay scam artists for keys, when there are other (nefarious) ways to activate Windows for free, nada, abolutely nothing? In both cases you don't have a valid license, so why pay for essentially "pirated" goods? It's just money down the drain.

If you have any doubts, contact the Microsoft License Team, tell them where you bought a single copy of LTSC , give them the 25-character activation key and ask if it's legit. Don't be surprised if they de-activate your copy of LTSC, the next time you run Windows Update.