Not 11 but the "Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021" is significantly better if you want an (official) full fledged Windows OS without the bloat. I'm using that on the Steam Deck w/ dual booting and it's perfect
LTSC is no longer debloated. The latest version comes with the same crapware, Windows app store, "recommended" Microsoft account, telemetry that can't be turned off etc.
It's just a stable version frozen in time but heralding it as the bloat-free alternative is no longer true.
I have access to it through work and I gave it a spin recently but it's no longer what it used to be.
I have installed IoT 2021 (Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 Version 21H2) like 3 weeks ago there was nothing, no App Store, less telemetry (there is some but significantly less than on the "normal" Windows versions, but I reinstalled the App Store so maybe because of that)
Thank you! I'm also a little shocked, I had no idea Archive.org was doing this. I'm starting to get the impression that there's quite a lot going on under the hood at archive.org, just reams of stuff I've never noticed ...
How you activate that? I think KMS will not work for IoT versions.
I use KMS activated non-IoT LTSC 2021 on my obsolete Surface. MS will not sell that edition to "consumers" like me, so I don't feel guilty at all for pirating it.
Windows activation is a simple thing. You need a KMS emulator, and you need to point your Windows to that. If you don't want to set up your own emulator, you can just search the internet for emulators, and point your Windows to one of those. This is what most activators do anyways. But running your own is also easy, if compiling and running a software is easy for you. I personally use vlmcsd.
I'm fully aware of the KMS stuff and how it works. But there are windows editions that are not licensed by and cannot be activated with KMS. I don't think there is any public way of pirating them apart from finding a working MAK key. No one seems to have digged into the SPPSvc and the internal working of Product Policy. (If you find something interesting that I missed, please let me know)
Unlike usual Enterprise editions, I don't think IoT Enterprise SKU will work with KMS. The only possible activation option seems to be with a PKEA key.
For a machine that never sees the internet, the IoT version runs in Deferred Activation state. So it is useful if it's for a intranet machine that never see the outside.
Just learned about this. I wish I could get some ameliorated.info scripts for that build. I might be willing to try Winders again in that case. There are some older win32 applications that I miss.
The main difference that IoT has longer lifecycle support, the activation method is different (but you don't even have to), and the IoT version is only available in english
But it doesn't really matter they are virtually the same
You can try but it probably depends on the laptop and how messy your OEM's drivers are. (they might require/depend on some component carved out of the IoT editions)
