Sadly I had to install Windows 10 iot ltsc on a laptop I own.

I tried to install linux. Several distros. But I always ran into de same issue. I was unable to install nvidia drivers. Which was weird, because that laptop have been on linux a few years prior and I clearly recall installing nvidia drivers without any issues.

So I dug into the problem. And it seems that some new linux kernel had issues with older nvidia drivers, so most, if not all, distros dropped support for that old driver. Only given solution was to run some old lts distro. But por instance mint lts will end on 2027.

At the same time everything worked just fine on that version of windows that have support until 2032.

And, not, the laptop is not that usable with nouveau drivers, as those are incapable of doing hardware acceleration, so everything runs slower, specially games, but it can be noticed even in just the DE.

So it's weird. That in order to keep old hardware around I need to use Windows, because linux dropped support for this particular older hardware earlier than windows.

I know it's just an exception, and that is mostly Nvidia's fault. But I had to do what I had to do.

Still running linux on other of my machines though.