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LTSC is unfortunately no longer the privacy bastion it used to be (especially in the LTSB days).

It now has the same choice of (only a little / very much) telemetry that regular windows has, has the ability to link microsoft accounts etc. The only real advantage is that they don't really push any new things to it.

Unfortunately, with the current LTSC release Microsoft reduced the lifetime from 10 to 5 years.

The IoT edition is still 10 years.

Does Xbox overlay and all the Windows gaming integrations work? I've found a cheap LTSC license and might just give this a try later today.

I only use Windows as my second boot option for emergencies when I can't use Linux.

Most features are simply disabled by default but can be toggled. You can bloat it all the way up to a regular Windows 10 installation.

What's the difference between generic and IoT LTSC? And does it support the winget app package manager?

Sorry, forgot to respond: IoT has a longer official support duration, i.e. it'll get updates for an additional 5 years for a total of 10 years.