Can’t run Windows 11? Don’t want to? There are surprisingly legal options

  • cmhe@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    You might likely run into issues with GPU (and other) windows drivers, which might stop supporting old windows 10 versions. At least that happened already with LTSC/LTSB. I expect this to happen especially when ordinary windows 10 EOL is reached.

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      9 hours ago

      Is that much of a big deal though? Running old GPU drivers is fine, other than maybe if you like playing the latest AAA games down the road.

      I mean eventually it will be an issue, but for a long time I imagine they will work just fine.

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        3 hours ago

        I’ve certainly had games stop working with older drivers. Older games, even.

        But maybe.

        Personally I just moved to Linux with Proton, but is not for everyone.

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        9 hours ago

        Well, it just depends on your use-case. Sometimes new games or applications require newer drivers or directly a newer Windows version. This is something you just have to be aware of.

        At least that was a reason I switched LTSC Windows over to Enterprise for some people.