Bear in mind Tiny11? The recent tackle Home windows 11 with a load of bloat eliminated, that runs on older and lesser spec PCs? Properly, it’s now potential to run the stripped-back OS on a Raspberry Pi.

This feat comes courtesy of the truth that the developer (NTDEV) has made an installer for Tiny11 ARM64 (opens in new tab), and our sister website Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) went forward and put this model on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Simply to remind you, the Pi Four is a straightforward laptop (nicely, a board to be exact) with 2GB of RAM (which is the minimal requirement for Tiny11) and a processor that runs at 1.5GHz.

And the headline information is that Tiny11 works, although Tom’s doesn’t advocate putting in on a microSD card – as that’s too sluggish – however fairly a USB flash drive.

Even so, the debloated tackle Home windows 11 ran okay – nicely, nearly – permitting apps to be fired up, and for instance Microsoft Edge was run, and internet pages might be browsed, although components comparable to pictures took fairly a while to render.

Evaluation: A tiny slice of Pi that’s edible, however not tasty

It’s not an enormous shock to see Tiny11 run on a Raspberry Pi 4, provided that we’ve already witnessed it efficiently working with a ludicrously small quantity of system RAM.

Nevertheless, whereas Tiny11 was usable on the Pi 4, efficiency wasn’t almost quick sufficient to be acceptable for on a regular basis use. So, the set up of Home windows 11 on this vogue is extra of an fascinating experiment than a sensible utility of the stripped-down model of Microsoft’s OS.

There are different points right here apart from bogged-down efficiency, and that features dodgy wi-fi connectivity: Tom’s famous that the Pi’s Wi-Fi didn’t work with Tiny11, and whereas a Bluetooth connection might be efficiently made, it didn’t work for sending recordsdata over. Plugging in through an Ethernet connection allowed for the web to be accessed, although.

Tiny11 for ARM64 remains to be very tough across the edges, then, though that’s to be anticipated, and certainly there have been a number of early fixes deployed already, together with one for a bug that brought about set up failure.

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