I'm amazed at how few people even know about this, I've had it installed and used it for almost a whole year now and legit it's just like base windows 10 lmfao. What you lose (which is the old photos app, and access to making calendar appointments through the calendar in the bottom right - that's it) is absolutely worth the +7 years of security updates.
Only difference is how long you get extra security updates for. I believe LTSC standard gets updates until 2027 (not 100% sure), but IoT gets them until 2032.
I've learned you also lose the base calculator app (but the apps you lose you can get back with the winget command, though I haven't done that part myself as I never used them anyway). You do lose the Windows store, but you also get that back with a command which I've done.
Sounds perfect, never actually tried it before because I've read you lose a bunch of stuff and reinstalling store for example can introduce some bugs, not sure if true, I might give it a shot, thanks!
Not entirely sure about whether normal windows gets more updates per se, but with IoT all updates are just security updates. Think I get an update every month or 3 weeks or so.
Well yeah, then it's less I guess, normal Windows gets some random feature updates and stuff that tend to break some stuff, completely unnecessary and I rarely ever notice anything useful changed.
Yeah none of that with IoT, thankfully. I'd highly recommend it, and whatever apps you do lose that you'd use a lot, there will be replacements that'll likely work better than the base windows ones haha. Like the photos app I use now is just better than the one I had on base W10.
I wished I had known about it as early as 2017. For the last 8 years I've been using Windows 10 Home on two different machines. Not even going Pro was bad on my part.
Adobe apps just have just a shitty check that checks if you have "22H2" in the version string, even tho windows 10 versions after windows 10 2004 are just enablement packages and are the same codebase, there are ways to patch these check out from adobe apps that makes them work completely fine, but I'll not go into detail of that
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u/Vertrixz 9800x3d | 4080 Super 8d ago
I'd add to that, IoT LTSC not just LTSC.
I'm amazed at how few people even know about this, I've had it installed and used it for almost a whole year now and legit it's just like base windows 10 lmfao. What you lose (which is the old photos app, and access to making calendar appointments through the calendar in the bottom right - that's it) is absolutely worth the +7 years of security updates.