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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by thrower123 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:04AM (#27516527)
It's absurd how much better LTSC is than publicly available versions of Win 10. If you have enterprise licensing or MSDN subscriptions or Partner connections, the only reason not to run it is if you really, really need WSL. Even then, I think you can get it enabled if you really need to.
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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by yellowapple on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:49PM (#27518041)
> the only reason not to run it is if you really, really need WSL. Even then, I think you can get it enabled if you really need to.

Indeed you can; I don't recall any difference between LTSC and non-LTSC when it comes to enabling WSL (though I haven't tried since WSL 2 came around, so maybe things changed).

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by Scramblejams on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @01:14PM (#27518416)
Another reason not to run it is if any of the games you play require > 1809.
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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by thrower123 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @01:37PM (#27518744)
What would an example of that be?
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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:08PM (#27519224)
Flight Simulator comes to mind, but that's the only one I know of (and it’s pretty unique in a lot of ways).

My Windows PC is a gaming machine pretty much exclusively, and it runs LTSC.

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Re:Windows 10 to be retired in 2025, as new OS unveils by Scramblejams on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:10PM (#27520843)
Yep, sibling is correct. I'd used LTSC for all my gaming until MSFS came out, then I had to switch to Windows 10. Looking forward to the next LTSC version so I can switch back, hope it has WSL2.
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