If your CPU doesn't have any transistors(which actually should have and is the only component with the most amount of them), then you couldn't even run anything at all(I also mean if the GPU doesn't have any, you could still not run any os or anything with no transistors, lol)
The "minimum" requarements of windows 10 actually is a lie (kinda)! I saw on the polish youtube video from zmaslo about this topic, he tried run rhe system but it wouldnt work! He find out later that the label is about **INSTALLING** windows, not running itself! (And btw the video is 5 years old so maybe it can be outdated)
Windows 11 to me personally just feels like an extra layer on top of Windows 10 with really-really alot of features that I rarely need and use. And extra loading to just open the file explorer. And RAM consumption that so high while i even just dont open any program at all. Oops, sluggish UI/UX
Coming from 10 onto 11 with unsupported hardware: …it’s just a reskin with more features. Performance to me feels the same. But not gonna lie I love the animations. Edit: not tiny 11, just normal unmodified 11, I bypassed the requirements, only wanted to try it… and then here I am using it daily.
Yeah but then you miss several core services, that you MIGHT need. I mean, you can force windows to use 170mb, but what task will you do with that??? Not even gaming would work, if you consider that many games run on platforms like steam or epic games, but also require c/c# runtimes
@@gigachad_from_dc I get that it definitely would not be a good experience and bassically nothing would run, but you technically could do it but it wouldnt be ideal and you would probably get a BSOD every 2 minutes
but these are the minimum requirements to run the WINDOWS 10 INSTALLER AND NOT WINDOWS 10 ITSELF on the lowest specification required after completing the installation process, the computer crashes
it takes up a LOT of storage though. I have it on a laptop with 64gb SSD and it doesnt even have enough space to update, even after uninstalling nearly all my programs
Nah, some polish youtuber tried installing windows on minimum requirements, but experiment ends when he noticed that this was minimum requirement FOR INSTALLING system, not starting up properly.
Well I did use windows 10 on my dad's 2008 laptop. It had like ig 2gigs of RAM and a core 2 duo chip. It ran pretty well tho but only in the older build that was released in 2015-16.
@@MMD202 yeah they slowly added more and more features and made it bloated. early release version of windows 10 was more clean and used to take up way less spaces. It's sad Microsoft pushing everyone to install w11.
Window 10/11 sucks ass on super low-end hardware when comparing to linux mint. you go from hardly being able to run chrome CZcams to on linux being able to play games
The issue with just knowing the barebones requirements is that every CPU has its own feature set, and starting from Windows Vista, there are CPU feature sets that are required before you can even run the OS.
Windows 11 doesn't even need a big, fat, powerful CPU. It can run on a dual core CPU fine. What it eats up is definitely RAM. You have to at least double to 4 gigs for Windows 11, but for smooth sailing, preferably 8. And even then, you'll maybe be browsing the web and/or watching some videos, and that's about it.
@@gnrtx-36969windows 11 and 10 unmodified use 3.6 to 3.8 ram for idle process now if you have only 4 gigs it will cut cost on things and only use 2.6 to 2.8
Maybe they just didn't update their requirements. Their very first windows 10 "build" versions were so light and had an amazing performance and resource management even on really old pcs.
Even without the updates the system requirements are wildly inaccurate. However the “real” system requirements are still quite low because you only really need a dual core and 3GB ram
Windows allocates resources available so it doesnt waste time allocating when it needs it. This is a common misconception, as in reality during intensive CPU or Memory related tasks it WILL use less resources.
That isn’t low requirements, people have just gotten used to absurdly high usage from over bloated and poorly optimized software. For a basic web browsing machine, a P4 and 1gb RAM should be fine (although with windows 10, it will run like crap. I use P4 machines and even pentium 3 machines measured in MHz with XP, and it runs fine for basic online and offline tasks.)
@@riot9179 but he isn't stating he is a Linux user? Basically all he is saying is that older hardware can still work with basic tasks and fine for older Windows OS and Windows 10 / 11 is bloated with unnecessary things. As someone who used Windows 7 before and recently upgraded to 10, he is kinda correct. On the other hand, more than 10 years old hardware (I5 2nd gen) is still being able to run Windows 10 is kinda amzing feat.
@@riot9179 Yeah, I am not a Linux user. I can't stand Linux and it's surrounding community. Good try though. There is just no reason you should need a gaming PC to check emails, google things, and watch CZcams. I can do all of that perfectly on a Pentium 4 machine from 2005 (single core 2.8 GHz) and 2gb RAM simply because I don't run Windows 10 or later as it is simply inefficient. We are at a point now where almost everyone will tell you that you need at least a quad core CPU and 8gb RAM as a minimum even for standard PC usage, which is just absurd. An operating system should be a basic platform with minimal tools built in and a good GUI which allows you to run the software you install onto it. These days Windows is trying to take WAY too much control, and do WAY too many things that most people don't want to do, and as such it runs like crap on anything other than high end systems (although that is also to blame on how poorly written and buggy it is as well.)
I've got an old Dell Laptop designed for Windows 7, and it runs Win 10 pretty good. It is kind of slow, but once you use it a bit it speeds up. It's a Dell Vostro V13 if anyone wanted to know
Windows 10 starting system requirements were fake requirements to get their foot in the door. All the updates end up making it run like ass on anything that isn't new. Almost every update breaks my laptop
It actually works and runs on my Celeron D 356, that Is basically the low-end version of a Pentium 4 and 2gb ddr2... It runs... I mean, its a microwave, not a computer
Well, why they did that was because of the collossal failure of Windows 8 which surprisingly had the similar system requirements and they really want to steal the market share of Windows 7 which, again, has similar requirements. However, the CPU requirement of Windows 10 was very different under the hood. Instead of just a 1GHz CPU, Windows 10 (and 8 and 8.1) began to require NX (or XD in Intel chip), PAE, SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set to be present in the CPU, and WDDM 1.0 or later GPU drivers which means nearly all laptops or Desktops with CPU only from around 2005-2006 to be able to boot up Windows 10 normally. Still a computer that were 10 years old from that time that could use latest OSes was very interesting and surprising to end users.
It just makes sense, basic thing should not use a lot of resources. Remember words of "basic" the fundamentals part. But just use your win 11. It's resources hungry OS
I can confidently say Windows 10 LTSC 21H2 runs well on a AMD Sempron 145 with 4GB Ram, the 64bit at least. The 1809 version runs flawlessly compared to the 21H2 however.
My father has an old laptop. It has 2 gb of ram ddr3, and 500gb storage. When i try to boot it up, it take like 15 minutes or so to boot, and when i try to press something like opening file manager, it takes 5 minutes to respond. Yeah, minimum requirements my as*.
How come you just found out I'm watching this on acer v5-431 Where this laptop has 1 core and a HDD inside, if you ask if it lags, I don't think the animation is good, etc. it just takes a very long time to load, oh yes, I play OSU and it's still smooth 🥰
From all my experience working with windows 10 and 11 they take up practically the same base amount of ram around 3.6 to 3.8 gigs. And ultimately the biggest factor of resource thief is any antimalware software
@@Grastanow so have you tried running windows 11 with 2 gigs of ram because with 4 they both take up 2.6 to 2.8 and 3.6 to 3.8 is just 8 gigs and up range
@@CoachingLake178 i will in the future. Now I dont have time to succesfully clone some os's from one drive to another with more space where I will also install win 11
In what collapsed multiverse is 1ghz, 1GB of ram and 20+ gb of ssd space considered low? KolibriOs runs on i586 (1st gen pentium released in 93 with clocks 60-300MHz), 8MB of ram and can be booted into graphics mode with apps from 1.44MB floppy.
these recuirments are for Windows 10 1507 witch is pretty much the same as Windows Vista. LTSB Windows 1507 follows these recuirments still thow thats ending in 2025
Windows 11's requirements weren't increased cause it's harder to run, it was done as a feeble attempt to guarantee a decent experience. Trust me, using win 10 on min requirements is not fun 😅
My old pc had 2gb of ram and a pretty trash cpu and gpu and it could run in windows 10 but the only game i could play was minecraft 1.16 minimum settings or almost any roblox game at 1 (lowest) graphics
Hey there, your theory is correct, Windows 10 easily runs on Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM, I am using 20H2 on a machine with those specs, BTW it has just a 64mb iGPU, and there is no lag unless you open a game or chrome😢
The requirements are pretty misleading Windows 11 has higher minimum requirements not because it can't run on less but because it's a very bad experience on less -- same case with Windows 10 What's written on paper, sadly, doesn't always translate to reality -- so in layman's terms: minimum, in Windows 11's case, means "for a good experience", whereas for Windows 10, it's "can run without crashing"
Linux: must have a transistor (optional)
I know thats a joke but it would still need transistors because almost everything needs logic to make things work
Linux: your device must ve powered by electricity
If your CPU doesn't have any transistors(which actually should have and is the only component with the most amount of them), then you couldn't even run anything at all(I also mean if the GPU doesn't have any, you could still not run any os or anything with no transistors, lol)
@gigachad_from_dc
Tubes: Am I a joke to you?
@@plasmablast0512 wdym?
Meanwhile my school pcs with Windows 7
Mine have 11
Mine got linux
We had mac os and windows 10
Same but now they've been upgraded to 10
@@dirpydemon7678 At least you have windows.. My old school had apple for everything it was AWFUL
Still going strong with Windows 10 LTSC 💪
Still staying strong on methamphetamine
Can you use a pro license for LTSC? I've activated all my windows 10s with old windows 7 product keys because i hate those watermarks
Yup @@AlfiesFuntime
Same
@@lunarismcThanks
The "minimum" requarements of windows 10 actually is a lie (kinda)!
I saw on the polish youtube video from zmaslo about this topic, he tried run rhe system but it wouldnt work! He find out later that the label is about **INSTALLING** windows, not running itself!
(And btw the video is 5 years old so maybe it can be outdated)
Damn, I still got a system with half a gig of RAM running on Debian and it runs perfectly fine for it's age
Windows 11 to me personally just feels like an extra layer on top of Windows 10 with really-really alot of features that I rarely need and use.
And extra loading to just open the file explorer.
And RAM consumption that so high while i even just dont open any program at all.
Oops, sluggish UI/UX
Tbh startup time obviously slower
I just use Tiny11
Tbh, yes win 11 is strange, somehow when I just on idle it use a lot of resources
Coming from 10 onto 11 with unsupported hardware: …it’s just a reskin with more features. Performance to me feels the same. But not gonna lie I love the animations.
Edit: not tiny 11, just normal unmodified 11, I bypassed the requirements, only wanted to try it… and then here I am using it daily.
Just get LTSC 2021.
Bro youtube just gave me a fresh video
Tru. I keep getting the same pinocio vid bruh 😭😭😭
You could actually force Windows 10 to run off as little as 170mb of ram with a few tweaks and safe mode
And how you could do that exactly?
Yeah but then you miss several core services, that you MIGHT need. I mean, you can force windows to use 170mb, but what task will you do with that??? Not even gaming would work, if you consider that many games run on platforms like steam or epic games, but also require c/c# runtimes
@@gigachad_from_dc c has no runtime. Its is compiled into a executable
@@AnAbsolutelyRandomGuy ok, then c++ and c#. That still makes a point
@@gigachad_from_dc I get that it definitely would not be a good experience and bassically nothing would run, but you technically could do it but it wouldnt be ideal and you would probably get a BSOD every 2 minutes
but these are the minimum requirements to run the WINDOWS 10 INSTALLER AND NOT WINDOWS 10 ITSELF on the lowest specification required after completing the installation process, the computer crashes
was weird when he said 2 gb, for me it always asked for 4 gb, also, wasn't windows 10 only for 64bit?
Putting the taskbar to the left of your screen was so convenient for laptops
(At least for me)
Win 11 requirement is so high 😢
Don't worry you can bypass using rufus
@@kaushik6371they patched it
When???@@FunToHard
@@FunToHard it's still working i used it recently
@@kaushik6371 I always use rufus even though I have way better hardware than the minimum requirements
it takes up a LOT of storage though. I have it on a laptop with 64gb SSD and it doesnt even have enough space to update, even after uninstalling nearly all my programs
Can confirm, works on pentium 4, barely tho 😅
Nah, some polish youtuber tried installing windows on minimum requirements, but experiment ends when he noticed that this was minimum requirement FOR INSTALLING system, not starting up properly.
Exactly. I tried to install it on a 2013 hp notebook that has 2gb of ram & dual core amd chip and it feels like crap
Well I did use windows 10 on my dad's 2008 laptop. It had like ig 2gigs of RAM and a core 2 duo chip. It ran pretty well tho but only in the older build that was released in 2015-16.
@@T3nyys0n Oh yeah I think Its because they added a lot of junk in the later updates (co-pilot/bing search...)
@@MMD202 yeah they slowly added more and more features and made it bloated. early release version of windows 10 was more clean and used to take up way less spaces. It's sad Microsoft pushing everyone to install w11.
linux: must have cpu (optional)
Window 10/11 sucks ass on super low-end hardware when comparing to linux mint. you go from hardly being able to run chrome CZcams to on linux being able to play games
I ran it on a hp stream 14 with 2g of ram 32g of storage and some shity air cooled CPU
Yes. Some random lightweight distro like puppy linux or lubuntu could even make a single core run 720p with h264 enabled
What is linux mint, how many versions of Linux are out there
@@MGrey-qb5xz linux its just a kernel. Ppl can take it and make an operation system.
@@JoseLucasd damn
To be fair, that's if you want to stare at the desktop in Windows 10, it doesn't consider opening notepad.
The issue with just knowing the barebones requirements is that every CPU has its own feature set, and starting from Windows Vista, there are CPU feature sets that are required before you can even run the OS.
My schools pirated windows 10 and pirated photoshop/sketchup on 2GB of ram and Pentium be like:
I have a Pentium E6600 dual core 3.06GHz CPU, and the Windows 10 just runs perfectly fine (modded Windows 10, uses way less memory than the stock one)
Windows 11 doesn't even need a big, fat, powerful CPU. It can run on a dual core CPU fine. What it eats up is definitely RAM. You have to at least double to 4 gigs for Windows 11, but for smooth sailing, preferably 8. And even then, you'll maybe be browsing the web and/or watching some videos, and that's about it.
eh but it will run way worse than win10 and if you run dual core cpu just switch to linux it will be way better
I have 8 gb ram and it eats like 50 percent of it idling thank god i installed tiny11 now it only used 20-30
Unused RAM is wasted RAM, the os will give up memory when you start to run low
@@gnrtx-36969windows 11 and 10 unmodified use 3.6 to 3.8 ram for idle process now if you have only 4 gigs it will cut cost on things and only use 2.6 to 2.8
Bloatware: "Let me introduce myself!"
Windows 11 feels like a whole entire refresh, whereas 10 simply feels like a Metro rehash of Windows 7
So good to hear that i have the lowest possible requirements to use windows 10 💀
Maybe they just didn't update their requirements. Their very first windows 10 "build" versions were so light and had an amazing performance and resource management even on really old pcs.
Oh. That's how my Intel Core Two Duo managed to run windows 10, for 15 minutes.
Even without the updates the system requirements are wildly inaccurate. However the “real” system requirements are still quite low because you only really need a dual core and 3GB ram
Windows 10 will actually run on some later LGA based Pentium 4s/Ds, from like 2005. It's ridiculously slow though.
Why is my school using Windows vista if it has 8GB RAM?
On Paper vs Real Requirements,,
I can confirm it with my old laptop
Windows allocates resources available so it doesnt waste time allocating when it needs it. This is a common misconception, as in reality during intensive CPU or Memory related tasks it WILL use less resources.
Bro is spongebob
Bc of the gappy in his teeths? I would call him "josuke" instead.
I wouldn't recommend any CPU under 2ghz with 2 cores 2 threads minimum
windows 10: 1 ghz
people: what core?
*windows 10 installed*
people: it work! now put it to internet
blue screen: helo darkness my old friend
i confirm, it does work on a pentium 4. i have one of those
True! I have a 1998 Sony laptop with original windows 10, 2 gb ram, dual core old cpu and an upgraded ssd sata
I have a Windows 11 and XP... when i use them, its so much difference... XP is nostalgia...
That isn’t low requirements, people have just gotten used to absurdly high usage from over bloated and poorly optimized software. For a basic web browsing machine, a P4 and 1gb RAM should be fine (although with windows 10, it will run like crap. I use P4 machines and even pentium 3 machines measured in MHz with XP, and it runs fine for basic online and offline tasks.)
Your comment is the reason why Linux users should have no right of opinion
@@riot9179 but he isn't stating he is a Linux user? Basically all he is saying is that older hardware can still work with basic tasks and fine for older Windows OS and Windows 10 / 11 is bloated with unnecessary things. As someone who used Windows 7 before and recently upgraded to 10, he is kinda correct. On the other hand, more than 10 years old hardware (I5 2nd gen) is still being able to run Windows 10 is kinda amzing feat.
@@riot9179 Yeah, I am not a Linux user. I can't stand Linux and it's surrounding community. Good try though.
There is just no reason you should need a gaming PC to check emails, google things, and watch CZcams. I can do all of that perfectly on a Pentium 4 machine from 2005 (single core 2.8 GHz) and 2gb RAM simply because I don't run Windows 10 or later as it is simply inefficient.
We are at a point now where almost everyone will tell you that you need at least a quad core CPU and 8gb RAM as a minimum even for standard PC usage, which is just absurd.
An operating system should be a basic platform with minimal tools built in and a good GUI which allows you to run the software you install onto it. These days Windows is trying to take WAY too much control, and do WAY too many things that most people don't want to do, and as such it runs like crap on anything other than high end systems (although that is also to blame on how poorly written and buggy it is as well.)
I've got an old Dell Laptop designed for Windows 7, and it runs Win 10 pretty good. It is kind of slow, but once you use it a bit it speeds up.
It's a Dell Vostro V13 if anyone wanted to know
I don’t understand why windows needs 50 different services running in the background
it could even run on a pentium iii theoretically
Windows 10 starting system requirements were fake requirements to get their foot in the door. All the updates end up making it run like ass on anything that isn't new. Almost every update breaks my laptop
Confirmed working on a pentium mobile gen 3 (1 core, 1 thread config, @ 2.4Ghz overclocked**)
I never thought there'd be a day when Windows 10 is praised for being lightweight😂 Microsoft messed up big time lol.
Or maybe they've written those requirements for Windows Vista and didn't update them until Windows 11.
It actually works and runs on my Celeron D 356, that Is basically the low-end version of a Pentium 4 and 2gb ddr2... It runs... I mean, its a microwave, not a computer
Well, why they did that was because of the collossal failure of Windows 8 which surprisingly had the similar system requirements and they really want to steal the market share of Windows 7 which, again, has similar requirements.
However, the CPU requirement of Windows 10 was very different under the hood. Instead of just a 1GHz CPU, Windows 10 (and 8 and 8.1) began to require NX (or XD in Intel chip), PAE, SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set to be present in the CPU, and WDDM 1.0 or later GPU drivers which means nearly all laptops or Desktops with CPU only from around 2005-2006 to be able to boot up Windows 10 normally. Still a computer that were 10 years old from that time that could use latest OSes was very interesting and surprising to end users.
Wow 1 ghZ cpu 💀
A Shy Windows Vista fufin' laptop will do the job
It just makes sense, basic thing should not use a lot of resources.
Remember words of "basic" the fundamentals part.
But just use your win 11. It's resources hungry OS
1 Ghz is only good enough for basic web tasks and spreadsheets. I would call anything in the megahertz to be very slow.
My mom had a pentium and 2gb ram and windows was running. I made her a new PC a few months ago with rtx 3060 and amd ryzen 5 5600x and 16gb ram tho
I can confidently say Windows 10 LTSC 21H2 runs well on a AMD Sempron 145 with 4GB Ram, the 64bit at least. The 1809 version runs flawlessly compared to the 21H2 however.
I had a pentium 4 Processor potato pc running windows 7. I tried windows 10 32bit version on that. The shocking part isit really worked
It works on nearly anything, usability is another topic tho
It's to force the market to provide computers with a minimum of 8GB of ram instead of 4.
Windows really has a lot of bloatware that we don't need,
lmfao i remember people complaining about the high system requirements of 10 when it came out
I feel like Windows 11 is purposefully made just so we could spend more money to use it.
I have never seen an unmodified windows 10 (with drivers) that uses less than 3gb of ram
Bro. it even runs on a amd athlon 6400 or something like that
Believe me, I'd use Windows XP if I could (if it still has MS support).
My father has an old laptop.
It has 2 gb of ram ddr3, and 500gb storage.
When i try to boot it up, it take like 15 minutes or so to boot, and when i try to press something like opening file manager, it takes 5 minutes to respond. Yeah, minimum requirements my as*.
How come you just found out I'm watching this on acer v5-431 Where this laptop has 1 core and a HDD inside, if you ask if it lags, I don't think the animation is good, etc. it just takes a very long time to load, oh yes, I play OSU and it's still smooth 🥰
I can confirm that , Windows 10 can work with a Pentium 4 , ( since I have a PC that has Win 10 and runs on a Pentium 4
My school pc has 10 windows and 4 pentium so yes. It works
Windows 10 will work down to SOME pentium 4's. Only later pentium 4's had NX bit witch is the main requirement for cpus for windows 8 to 10.
We ran win 10 on Intel Pentium processor with 8 gigabytes of ram.
I use windows 11 for the AI features like snipping tool built in text ocr
My school laptop has a 0.8 GHz processor, 4 Gigs of RAM and it runs windows 11💀
The fact that my pc doesnt even have 1gb of ram (i have 2x256mb)
Don't even consider Tiny 11 as an OS. It's full of security issues
Those requirements are ridiculous. My older laptop only has 400mhz 1 core and 65mb of ram. So sadly I cant run windows 10.
I've tried it and it works perfectly fine in Pentium 4! 😂
Why does it say 2GB RAM for 64 bits if the minimum requirements for 64 bits are 4GB of RAM?
Windows 10 requirements are normal, just wondows 11 requirements are too high
From all my experience working with windows 10 and 11 they take up practically the same base amount of ram around 3.6 to 3.8 gigs. And ultimately the biggest factor of resource thief is any antimalware software
@@CoachingLake178 it depends on how much ram you actually have. For example I have 2GB ram and win 10 64bit takes about 1 to 1,5
@@Grastanow so have you tried running windows 11 with 2 gigs of ram because with 4 they both take up 2.6 to 2.8 and 3.6 to 3.8 is just 8 gigs and up range
@@CoachingLake178 i will in the future. Now I dont have time to succesfully clone some os's from one drive to another with more space where I will also install win 11
@@Grastanow can't wait to hear the results then
If it is 64bit system. Windows 11 will work on all systems that can install Windows 10. With bypasses.
In what collapsed multiverse is 1ghz, 1GB of ram and 20+ gb of ssd space considered low? KolibriOs runs on i586 (1st gen pentium released in 93 with clocks 60-300MHz), 8MB of ram and can be booted into graphics mode with apps from 1.44MB floppy.
these recuirments are for Windows 10 1507 witch is pretty much the same as Windows Vista. LTSB Windows 1507 follows these recuirments still thow thats ending in 2025
Windows 11's requirements weren't increased cause it's harder to run, it was done as a feeble attempt to guarantee a decent experience. Trust me, using win 10 on min requirements is not fun 😅
My old pc had 2gb of ram and a pretty trash cpu and gpu and it could run in windows 10 but the only game i could play was minecraft 1.16 minimum settings or almost any roblox game at 1 (lowest) graphics
My core 2 duo run windows 10 smoothly 😳
Meanwhile my intel core 2 duo computer with windows 10
Why is it STEALING 90% OF MY RAM THEN?
Linux: electricity (optional)
nah they are 2015 requirements. that 2gb in 64 bit is filled already
Windows 11 works "fine" on 2gb ddr 2 and 64bit P4
Yes, you can run windows 10 32bit on Pentium 4
win 7, still going fast
Hey there, your theory is correct, Windows 10 easily runs on Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM, I am using 20H2 on a machine with those specs, BTW it has just a 64mb iGPU, and there is no lag unless you open a game or chrome😢
My PC only uses 3% of CPU so when does do not eat up my computer
But if I ever stop talking bro, I’m fix that big ass gap
actually l using windows 10 in a Pentium Dual-Core with my dell studio 1737 laptop
As a person who has a pentium computer with only 2gb of ddr2 ram running on windows 10 I can confirm this is true. (Not recommended though)
Minimum spec = minimum functionality
Yeah I agree, why went through Microsoft head to make Windows 11
Does anybody know of a windows 10 version that can be installed on an 8 gb ssd?
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Is Windows 10 really going away in 2025?
Windows 10 system requirements
It runs but it'll burn, good luck with that
Tiny 11 saved me
if you install windows 10 on 2gb ram system, windows setup will actually install less apps
The requirements are pretty misleading
Windows 11 has higher minimum requirements not because it can't run on less but because it's a very bad experience on less -- same case with Windows 10
What's written on paper, sadly, doesn't always translate to reality -- so in layman's terms: minimum, in Windows 11's case, means "for a good experience", whereas for Windows 10, it's "can run without crashing"
It does
They should've stopped at 7