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0 pointseveryone7y ago0 comments

If you must use Windows get Windows LTSC

A version of windows 10 that is completely free of bloatware (no Microsoft store, no preinstalled apps like candy crush, no tiles on start menu, no Cortana, only windows search, no edge, only Internet explorer). It only gets security updates instead of feature updates, and has support for 10 years. Best version of windows 10 IMO. FYI it was originally called LTSB (Long term servicing branch) and was renamed to LTSC (Long term servicing channel).

I put it on my new machine and it the 1st version of Windows I've been ok with since 7. Buying it is basically impossible for a normal person, but its readily available on tpb. (also kms activator)

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andai7y ago· 2 in thread

I recently tried out LTSC again in a vm to see how W10 has progressed. Apps take a long time to open. I thought it wasn't registering the clicks or something, until 30 seconds later it opened it 3 times.

Start menu takes > 0.5 seconds to even begin animating. Disabling animations actually makes the lag subjectively worse.

I installed W7 a few hours later to compare, and I was amazed at the difference in responsiveness. I'm talking like 10-20x faster.

I bought 5 year old netbook recently and it didn't have the resources to open W10's start menu. (Well, it could, but it took three minutes.) Did a fresh install of W7, and like magic, you can actually use the computer again.

I don't use any version of Windows anymore, but I'd like to be able to. I'm sad support for W7 will be ending soon.

With classic theme gone, and everything so slow, the best Windows desktop experience for me in this day and age is XFCE.

MegaDeKay7y ago

Running LTSC in a VM right now with Linux / KDE on the host. It is very snappy indeed. A few ideas:

- you aren't running off an SSD and Windows Defender is choking your disk I/O out from under you

- you haven't allocated enough memory to the VM

- you've just installed the VM and a Windows Update is going on behind your back and dragging things down

Opening the Task Manager and seeing what is choking the life out of your machine would be very helpful.

I agree with the parent poster that LTSC is generally pretty great if you've got to run Windows. For everything else, there is KDE :-)

edit: formatting

iknowstuff7y ago

Maybe it just didn't work well with the VM. Windows 10 is pretty lean and apps definitely don't take a long time to open.

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