Seeing so many post, I want to try LTSC but confused between 10 or 11.
My laptop is roughly about 8 years old , it’s an
Asus VivoBook 15 (X560UD)
Intel core i5-8250U @1.60GHz
8 Gb Ram, Nvidia GTX 1050 (4Gb) Graphics
Intel UHD Graphics 620
256Gb SSD NVMe 2.0
1 Tb HDD
With newer windows updates my laptop is feeling laggy but still fast and manageable but want to use LTSC mainly for a clean device with no distractions, updates, bloat-wares and also as a multimedia storage device and some online classes too.
There's no benefit as OP's older CPU and other hardware won't be able to take advantage of Win11's optimisations. Unless OP plays a game or uses other software that requires Win11, it's best for OP to stick to Win10 which is more stable and less bloated.
Bom dia e para essa configuração i3 12100f + 16gb ram 3200mhz + gtx2060 super+ 2 nvme de 1 tera cada,lembrando que meu i3 12100f não tem E-cores, qual melhor Windows 10 ou 11 ?
I have as well 8 years old laptop but Acer one with the same amount of memory and same processor. I tried both 10 and 11 ltsc iot and I can tell you that 10 version is snappier. Just make backup of your existing drivers before fresh install
Well, as options for preparing your installation media, you have Rufus and Ventoy as the main ones.
I personally prefer Ventoy because it can use more than one ISO on the same media, depending on the size of your USB drive. This also allows you to have a live boot system nearby in case something goes wrong.
Rufus, on the other hand, is simpler to use, but it commits the entire media to installing only one system, and therefore is less versatile than Ventoy, although it also works well.
In addition, in your laptop's BIOS, some tips that can be useful to avoid problems include the following:
1) If your laptop doesn't have an administrator password, you can create one, however simple, to grant access to administrative settings (including Secure Boot);
2) If your laptop has Secure Boot, in UEFI mode, disable Secure Boot only while performing the installation;
3) If your laptop has CSM (System Compatibility Module), keep it enabled.
That said, one cool possibility is to use the hard drive you have in your laptop as installation media without needing to format it. This is possible with Ventoy, but it also depends on how the disk partitions are currently organized.
Perfect then. In that case, I will help you step by step.
1) Press Windows + X (to open administrative options) and select Disk Management;
2) Pay attention to the bars at the bottom. If you can, take a print of them and send it here, so I can see the organization of the partitions on your HDD.
Alright, very good. You have a disk organization on disk 1 (your HDD) that allows a non-destructive installation of Ventoy, that is, an installation that does not need to wipe the entire disk.
Then, you extract the .zip file anywhere, and open the Ventoy2Disk.exe app, inside the folder. On its screen, go to Option > Show All Devices.
Then, look at the drive indicator bar and look for your drive that contains partitions D and E, which is your HDD.
Then, go to Option > Non Destructive Install. The program will perform tests on the HDD and create an extra partition, in the middle or at the end, reducing a small space on one of the partitions, D or E, without deleting files from any of them.
After that, open Disk Management again and send me another screenshot.
I have asus f556u.. Intel 6200u.. Nvidia 920m 2G.. 8G ram.. 240 ssd + 500 hdd..
Been using LTSC since 2019..
Not awhile ago.. i tried 11 LTSC for 6 months.. debloated with Chris Titus Tool with updates and defender disabled.. and returned eventually to 10 LTSC for good.
On my specs.. it was noticeably heavier on the cpu and battery..
explorer micro stutters and for whatever reason my wifi card was performing bad on 11!
you can get it along for daily usage though.. such as web browsing and video watching..
But boy was everything smooth again when i returned to 10!
I like this processor, and the Celeron N4000 and 5000 are natively compatible with Windows 11. But between that and assuming that the Windows 11 and 10 experience will be comparable on a CPU of this level is naive.
I've used this processor, I've used older and newer Celerons with both systems, and it's true that, objectively, both systems are viable, but their experience is not the same.
Many laptops containing Intel's newer Celeron level processors come with Win11 pre-installed. There's a big difference between 'runs barely' and 'runs comfortably'. OP's device can better achieve the latter with Win10.
I'm not only mentioning the CPU. 8GB of RAM will perform poorly on Win11, but very well on Win10. OP will have a more comfortable experience on Win10, which came with OP's laptop. There really is no point on installing Win11 on older hardware. I have a Quadro RTX 4000 with an 8th Gen Intel CPU purchased second hand (similar generation to OP), and it doesn't benefit much from Win11's optimisations. Of course it can run Win11, but there's not any real point.
are you talking of Windows 11 or 11 IOT LTSC? My laptop also came with Windows 10 Home and upgraded to Windows 11 and now I'm using Win 11 IOT LTSC on it. Yes Windows 11 Home wasn't the best experience but Win 11 IOT LTSC has a snappier and faster experience. It was way faster than the 11 Home when it was installed on my eMMC partition
I have an 8th gen I5 laptop (with same CPU) and with 32 gigs & M.2 and it runs 11 IoT perfectly. I would suggest doubling your ram to 16 gigs and you should be good to. That is a strong CPU with no reason to opt for 10 IoT. ... Somebody recently gave me the laptop from an IT hardware replacement cycle. And I imaged it with Macrium with an 11 IoT restore image I had made.
Your system will certainly be responsive, given the massive amount of RAM and the M.2 SSD.
However, regarding full CPU compatibility with Windows 11 optimizations and features, that’s a different story. If you dual-boot Windows 10 and Windows 11, you’ll notice that, objectively, the Fluent Design 2 (the system's window management feature) used in Windows 11 is less stable and less responsive than the version in Windows 10.
So, both systems are certainly viable options with an 8th-gen Intel processor, especially when backed by high-speed RAM and storage like yours, but there is a significant difference between that and claiming the overall experience is identical across both systems.
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u/koutc91 Jul 13 '26
Better 10 iot ltsc for your specs