Mini PCs with a n100 or used office PCs are probably not that much more expensive and a much better alternative, if your goal is to run windows on them and you don’t already have the Raspberry Pi lying around.
Seems like a pointless exercise.
If anything, it would be more interesting to run a full x86 emulator to install Windows 98 / Windows XP to run older games. There are games that work better on native Windows 98 than via compatibility mode on W10.
I just saw a short of someone running an instance of XP on an esp32 chip. Dunno how well it actually worked cause it was just thirty seconds of an error message repeating. But I would love to play some old games with <1 watt of power.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Lost me at “run windows 11”
Fuck no
Windows 11 deserves to die in a dumpster fire.
Just windows in general
Win 11 is going to eat up so, so many resources on a low-power device like a Pi.
The pi 5 is a lot more powerful than you’d expect. At least when cooled properly.
I wouldn’t expect a great experience, but as the article says: Older games (like 10-15 years ago) and web games should work ok.
This is definitely more of a because you can, than a primary computing experience.
If they’re gonna play 10-15yr old games, why not use a better Windows?
Because windows 10 for arm sucked big balls, and anything else before it was even worse.
