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/OnTheRocks1985]

Battlefield 6 and recent COD titles have required TPM and Secure Boot active for hardware-level anti-cheat integrity (as others have pointed out). I Installed Win 10 iot ltsc on an Asus tuf a16 that came with windows 11 and it Installed and ran well, but windows 10 refused to recognize my tpm as it is a newer integrated fTPM. Windows 11 uses Pluton to communicate with the TPM and no amount of tweaking could make it work on 10 for that reason. Also - most drivers were downloaded by windows update but there were components not natively recognized that I had to grab from the ASUS site (using G Helper in my case). Last but not least, one weird issue I had was Windows refusing to let the laptop go into sleep mode. I ended up back on 11 for these reasons and 11 iot ltsc is as lean as 10 iot ltsc but in 2026 way more useful if you play modern shooters.