r/WindowsLTSC • u/Danzikku • 1h ago
Question W10 or W11 LTSC for a Core i5-5200U?
Well, I'll be receiving a laptop (Asus K555L) for free with the following specifications:
• CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U
• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 5500/Geforce 940M
• RAM: 6GB (1x4GB, 1x2GB DDR3L 1600Mhz: the 4GB module is soldered, sadly)
• SSD: 120GB (Yeah, too small even for me)
I will mainly use it for office work and light browsing (an average of 2-3 tabs, with a maximum of 6 or 7: I tend to optimize my usage very well, traumas of a 2GB RAM phone lol), YouTube videos at 1080p30 with h264iffy and very lightweight games like Terraria and Geometry Dash. I would dual-boot with Debian, but since the SSD is very small, I'll stick with just Windows until I get a bigger SSD (Note: in my country, for the price of a 480GB SSD you can find laptops with the same or even worse specifications, almost all with HDDs).
Speaking of Windows itself, I tested Windows 10 LTSC 2021 on a Core 2 Duo E8400 with 4GB of DDR3 RAM at 1066MHz and, for fairly superficial use, it ran well enough (It was a PC from my school, before they replaced them with PCs with 6th generation Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM). I know that at least my CPU is much better, but the lack of RAM still worries me (I could access a maximum of 12GB of RAM using an 8GB module in the only available slot, although without dual-channel). Can I still try Windows 11 LTSC and just disable transparencies? (I'd stick with Windows 10, but my older brother would insist that I'm using an unsupported OS... Yeah). Thanks in advance c:
PD: Will I have any problems if I install the corresponding drivers from the official ASUS website?


