Running LTSC in a VM right now with Linux / KDE on the host. It is very snappy indeed. A few ideas: - you aren't running off an SSD and Windows Defender is c

Running LTSC in a VM right now with Linux / KDE on the host. It is very snappy indeed. A few ideas: - you aren't running off an SSD and Windows Defender is choking your disk I/O out from under you - you haven't allocated enough memory to the VM - you've just installed the VM and a Windows Update is going on behind your back and dragging things down Opening the Task Manager and seeing what is choking the life out of your machine would be very helpful. I agree with the parent poster that LTSC is generally pretty great if you've got to run Windows. For everything else, there is KDE :-) edit: formatting