Can I run this on my laptop?

Yep!

It will also miss feature upgrades and so can be slower than the main distribution. It's probably fine if you don't play games.

no-one wants "feature upgrades"

windows was feature complete with Windows 2000

If anything feature upgrades will make your computer slower.

There is no universe in which LTSC is slower than the regular release.

Feature updates only add more bloat and slow down the system.

It's fine even if you play games. When the time comes, you'll get the update and do the update manually.

This is what I use in a VM on my Linux host whenever I need to run something Windows.

I don't game and all my software is cross platform. Windows still has a few things I miss, programs like notepad++ (for which there's no true Linux equivalent), and portable apps (with Linux equivalents not really coming close, but understandably so).

Windows really is a broken OS solely set up for spying on users.

Notepad++ is seems like it has a pretty high Wine compatibility? https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

Wine has a very small font in interface. Can something be done with it?

Not that I’ve used Wine recently, but this seems to be the exact problem and solution? https://askubuntu.com/q/1313791

Notepad++ can only exists on OS like windows (I think macos has bbedit?). By the time people really need all the feature in Notepad++, they’ve already learned Vim or Emacs. And the basic editors in Linux DE are way more useful than Notepad.

If you like the KDE tools, Kate is a pretty good replacement for Notepad++. It's a very fast native Qt program with a familiar look and feel.

NotepadNext is a damn near perfect Linux clone of NP++.

>programs like notepad++

Sublime text

CudaText is replacement for NP++. Main disadvantage - Spell Checker plugin is much slower. But many advantages.

I have to use Windows for some things, and that's the version I have installed for that. I was a bit concerned at first, I thought I would find that some things didn't work. I've had zero issues though, highly recommend it. (No idea how it works for gaming.)

LTSC Enterprise IoT. Using this for workstation for years.

Creating bootable install disc via Rufus gives you an options to set up offline account, skip secure boot requirements, skip privacy options, etc., Installation is then a matter of few clicks.