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Title basically.

One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).

Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...

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[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 9 points 6 days ago

You could also try installing Windows IoT LTSC.

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

At this point I want to give Linux an earnest go on this box. I bought a second SSD and will just unplug the windows drive for a while.

I am curious if fusion will support LTSC and/of whatever version of 11 they call out.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

If you're going to pirate, you might as well get Windows Server. It runs everything without any of the Windows garbage preinstalled like Xbox.

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