Windows 11 ARM on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 4 Windows 11 installation and demo, achieved using materials developed by the Windows on Raspberry (WoR) project and BotSpot. And of course Microsoft. :)

The Windows on Raspberry website is here:

And Botspot’s WoR flasher page is here:

Microsoft’s Windows on ARM overview is here:

The commands to execute in a terminal, as shown in the video, are:

and then

Good luck! :)

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:07 WoR Flasher
04:53 Installation
07:40 Windows on Pi
11:13 Pi Passmark

#RaspberryPi #Windows #Windows11 #ExplainingComputers

[PixlRainbow]

I noticed when you looked at "about system" that it indicated that only 2.92 GB of RAM was usable. Note that if you visit the UEFI menu (included with Windows on Raspberry), you can disable the option marked "Limit RAM use to 3GB".

[cyberstorm]

I had Windows 11, on my Raspberry Pi 4, 8Gb version few months ago, I did the installation from windows and was fair more complicated, I'm glad to see the installation from Linux more easy to do.
I've been running x86 and x64 native windows programs without problems (until now no program had give me problems), I use Netflix and YouTube video streaming without delay, so I really happy with the performance.
My initial motivation have been running Windows programs on a cheap and low energy consumption environment, I would be grateful if you can make energy consumption testing on this setup comparing with RaspberryOS or other OS.
Thanks for the great content as always!

[srvuk]

Definitely a PI OS that is perfectly suited for snail use.

The concept is great, even if the hardware and lack of complete drivers will never make it a realistic day to day proposition.

But a potentially useful pointer for the next iteration of the board.

[izzieb]

Half an hour to install - holy moly! Shows the difference in speed between a Pi and modern desktop. Last time I did a clean install it took a few minutes!

[MysticMagic]

Excellent and interesting video Chris, thank you. Loaded Win 11 on my Pi4 8GB, but as mentioned by others, Win 11 is painfully slow. Given that it was possible at all, is highly commendable. I look forward to further in the coming months. Perhaps a future Pi5 fitted with an SSD will significantly improve performance.

[WistrelChianti]

The thing I love about windows 7... is that when I open the settings, it opens the settings. I don't have to wait some inexplicable amount of time for it to do nothing more taxing than populate a window with a few icons. And this is on a 10 year old PC... but this is 2022 of course and microsoft are like "you want to open a window... hmm.... that's very complicated you know...."

[PS_Tube]

It's Sunday already?
Greetings Chris. This is an interesting video.

[LloydG]

Windows 11 on a Pi, who’d have thought it! What fun and I loved the chats with a snail. Great stuff, thanks for another brilliant video.

[RoboNuggie]

Another excellent offering Christopher, but it does seem strange seeing that, a bit like sandals and socks...can be done, but I'll let others try it 🙂
Thank you!

[seireiart]

I do have a limited data right now, but since a new ExplainingComputers video is up, I must watch it 😁👌

[RichSzerman]

Great video as usual. Have you tried Cpect emulator on a PI yet? It is the Spectrum Next emulator. With your tech background it would be interesting

[mtranchi]

hey hoss. Sundays are usually a slow upload day regarding my favorite youtubers.

sometimes i get a little nervous if you don't upload at the exact time you usually do, but you're pretty rock-solid in being there on time, rock-solid in being there every sunday.

thank you sir, i appreciate your efforts and look forward to your vids every sunday.

you have a breadth of knowledge regarding any platform, os, etc. Thank you for expanding my mind with your knowledge.

i believe that, in a previous video, you asked your audience what our interest is. I can only speak for myself.

home automation, home security using only rasberry pis and whatever OPEN SOURCE that doesn't phone home software you choose (i sometimes step into my kitchen naked and i don't want the world to see my how little my puppy is).

i know you've touched on this topic, but i would love to see a complete start-to-finish series on the matter rather than tid-bits here and there.

i've watched vids from DIY Perks
to Smart Home Solver

the problem i have with the latter is that he usually uses solutions that phone home. Well, that and all his "incredible" sh*t is generally geared towards turning lights on and off. Seems there's gotta be more valuable solutions to automating one's home. Seems like there's a solution out there that doesn't report to AWS your current position in your home.

i'd love to see you dig into the home automation realm.

keep in mind, i run on windows and while i'm dev'ing software, i have an extra screen that i could keep track of what's going on in my house, with my house, around my house.

i live in Florida, United States, so certainly part of that would be a system that uses whole house fans, motors that open and close windows, cues to the HVAC to turn on or off, all driven by the current heat index, the temperature in the attic, the temperature outside, et alis.

do a series on how to implement that, i will follow along step by step, plus like every vid (i'm already subscribed with notifications on).

p.s. I do believe you have the driest sense of humor in the history of mankind. How do you manage to generate enough saliva to swallow food? :)

you rock hoss. :)


you should be ashamed of your country.

ok, ok, maybe not as much as what america's produced:


busting your chops hoss, tryin' a make ya think. I'm here all week, tip your waitress.

[auto]

I feel like we are slowly watching this man’s descent into madness. As he is doing this installation, he converses with snails about the meaning of life. He names his scissors. I’m just waiting for sock puppets he introduces as his most trusted friend then complains that it is not talking loudly enough for the mic to pick up the conversation he is hearing in his head.

[jose.inestroza]

Greetings Mr. CB and community!
It is always a treat to watch an educational and interesting video about technology, and at the same time to be hilarious by design. What a ride with the snail joke! Great content as always!

[dang]

Really neat. Nice to see how versatile the Raspberry Pi is.

[msthalamus]

I would think this would work quite a lot better on the 8GB Pi 4. (FWIW, I wouldn't even run Windows 10 with 4 GB on an x64 machine-- all it does all day long is page, which ties up RAM, the disk, and CPU.) Booting from an actual SSD would likely help too. The CPU bottleneck is a harder egg to crack, though I would guess that heatsink you have on there should open up the possibility of modest gains via overclocking. Given the leap between RPi 3 and 4, I wonder if RPi 5 will actually be a viable Windows platform?

[lee-annewalker]

22H2 ARM build which is in public release is first ARM build for the masses (Windows insider).

Tested mostly on MBP M1. Though did try once on PI 4 8GB. Must test on my Pi

[EcoHamletsUK]

I recently bought a 10 year old desktop PC, pre-installed with Windows 10, to run the few Windows programs I haven't found Linux replacements for. As it has a built-in power supply and hard disk, it was cheaper than buying a Pi (even at pre chip shortage prices!), power supply and SSD. And it's faster. None of the programs I use have ARM versions, so I'd have lost out on speed even more with a Pi. Neither solution is ideal, but I think what I've done is the better option for me.

[abelrashid]

I really hope ARM-based computer will be part of the industry because X86 hardware is so expensive in developing country.

[Snoky]

That snail killed me... almost like Windows 11 killed your poor Pi.

Anyway, that is an impressive demo what is possible on todays SBCs. As a geek, I really appreciate this kind of videos. Thank you!