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

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

  • @cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33•16 days 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.

    • @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      23•16 days 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.

      • @cmhe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11•16 days 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.

      • @ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•16 days 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.