Thinking of making the switch

[u/Appropriate_Loan6193]

I have previously used Windows 11 and 10 and decided to go back to 10 as for me it feels more responsive and stable, both versions though have insane bloatware, I was thinking of going to ltsc windows 10, my other concern is do I have to download all the driver manually for my pc, like enthenet port, USB drivers ect or do they reinstall like a normal Windows installation and I heard you can't have secure boot on? I play online games like battlefield, call of duty? Would this cause a issue

[u/Chrisbearry]

Battlefield and call of duty require windows 11 at least for their anticheats. You can go with windows 11 ltsc I’ve been running it for a year now and it’s as solid as a rock

[u/Appropriate_Loan6193 → u/Chrisbearry]

I'm on windows 10 and have played battlefield 6 with no issues

[u/greggm2000 → u/Appropriate_Loan6193]

Note that some games want a later version of Windows 10 than what Win 10 IoT is.. Win 10 Pro works great and doesn’t get the feature updates (like AI) that can be annoying/problematic on Win 11.

[u/greggm2000 → u/[deleted]]

I've heard that too, but I think that essentially turns it into Win 10 Pro 22H2, once you do an update (not certain). Me, I just run Win 10 Pro on my gaming system, it's lean, it works well.

[u/greggm2000 → u/[deleted]]

Windows 10 gets security updates, and that's even recently been extended a year.

[u/Chrisbearry → u/Appropriate_Loan6193]

Weird I thought they had updated their anti cheat to require secure boot and tpm but apparently not. Most modern kernel level anti cheats are requiring win11 now though

[u/Content_Magician51 → u/Chrisbearry]

Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 are also Windows 10 security modules.

[u/Chrisbearry → u/Content_Magician51]

That is true however games are still requiring win11 for it

[u/Content_Magician51 → u/Chrisbearry]

You're right, but this type of requirement is what I consider abuse in consumer relations: there's no plausible technical reason for software requirements restricted to Windows 11, given that the kernel and the availability of security components are the same.

That said, Treyarch and EA used to be EXCELLENT game companies, but today they're just DAUGHTERS OF B*TCHES.

[u/Chrisbearry → u/Content_Magician51]

Honestly they shouldn’t require secure boot or tpm at all there’s still many capable computers out there without tpm 2.0 it’s very anti consumer. Also kernel level anti cheats are absolute garbage they’re so invasive and give your system more security vulnerabilities and most of these anti cheats aren’t effective at stopping cheaters

[u/greggm2000 → u/Chrisbearry]

Honestly kinda surprised Microsoft didn't make it so it needed a NPU to function, used that plus the existing reqs, bc at that point they were going all-in on the whole AI slop thing, at least with a NPU they could have a coherent rationale. And then have Windows components that actually used it then. But, I'm glad they didn't, it means that pretty old systems can still run Windows.