@sjvn More like…
Windows 11 minimum requirements:
- x86-64 or (Qualcomm¹) ARM64 CPU made after 2016 (?²)
- 4GB RAM, 8GB+ strongly recommended unless you like waiting
- UEFI
- Secure Boot
- TPM 2.0 or later
- Broadband Internet with >10GB/month quota and at least 512kbps bandwidth
- Microsoft Account
- 64GB storage
- Valid license
Linux:
- 32-bit CPU with MMU³
- 4MB⁴ RAM, 2GB strongly recommended
- 2MB⁵ storage, 8GB strongly recommended
¹ AFAIK Microsoft has only licensed their OS for Qualcomm CPUs, but it has been convinced to run on Broadcom and Apple CPUs too. This is a legal constraint only, not a technical one.
² Windows 11 requires some cryptography instruction sets that only feature in newer CPUs… not entirely sure which generation
³ On x86: Intel 80386 was dropped a while back, 80486 and early 80586 will go in a future release… most x86 OSes require i686-class CPUs
⁴ haven't tried this in a very long time… 64MB may be a more practical lower limit for embedded devices, for a graphical desktop consider 512MB a bare minimum
⁵ only if you restrict yourself to musl & busybox… otherwise reserve at least 1GB…