Windows 11 ARM on Raspberry Pi
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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:
www.worproject.com/
And Botspot’s WoR flasher page is here:
github.com/Botspot/wor-flasher
Microsoft’s Windows on ARM overview is here:
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...
The commands to execute in a terminal, as shown in the video, are:
git clone github.com/Botspot/wor-flasher
and then
~/wor-flasher/install-wor-gui.sh
As far as I am aware, the method for installing the ARM version of Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi demonstrated in this video is legal, as all proprietary Windows components are downloaded straight from Microsoft's update servers using uupdump. This appears to have been confirmed by Gordon Hollingworth from Raspberry Pi here: forums.raspberrypi.com/viewto...
Good luck! :)
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:07 WoR Flasher
04:53 Installation
07:40 Windows on Pi
11:13 Pi Passmark
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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".
@efeloteishe4675
Жыл бұрын
Hmm nice on some computers they show it like that, thought that was allocated to iGPU
@PixlRainbow
Жыл бұрын
@@efeloteishe4675 the iGPU on the Pi becomes unstable if allocated more than 512MB, and is rarely allocated more than 256MB. If the discrepancy in RAM amount was just due to video memory, it should be closer to 3.2-3.6 GB.
@ydiadi_
Жыл бұрын
How to do it sir
@NicVandEmZ
Жыл бұрын
@@ydiadi_ more people should find out if you could hacktosh arm computers now a days
@Dave102693
Жыл бұрын
@@NicVandEmZ I would love Apple Pi project myself
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!
@fdmazlum
Жыл бұрын
Well its more SD Card vs SSD speed than the speed of the machine
@nicholasarrowsmith7922
Жыл бұрын
@@fdmazlum I will be trying this on a SSD as I dont think SD card is fast enough ! to have a useable experience
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 developments/upgrades/downloads in the coming months. Perhaps a future Pi5 fitted with an SSD will significantly improve performance.
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...."
@mikem9536
Жыл бұрын
Cool story bro.
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!
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 KZread 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!
@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this
Жыл бұрын
Why would you bother installing Windows if all you're going to do is stream content and not use programs that are relying on the Windows platform?
@cyberstorm45
Жыл бұрын
@@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this Just for testing, and obviously I installed other programs as well, like Dos games running on DoxBox, SNES Emulator, trading utilities like MT5 and Ninjatrader for algotrading, and Office 2019.
@marcelo_luz
Жыл бұрын
Hi, could you enlighte me if I can plug USB webcam in the RPI win11 and run a Zoon meeting? Thanks
@cyberstorm45
Жыл бұрын
@@marcelo_luz I've never did the test because I don't have a webcam, but wireless keyboard, external hard drives, gamepad, all of them worked fine.
@marcelo_luz
Жыл бұрын
@@cyberstorm45 Thanks! Just one more question: do you know if Remote Access (Microsoft RDP) works properly? My main reason to build this solution is to use the most of time as a client server because Ms RDP in my experience isost fluid and flexible application to it.
You are by far the best teacher for soft soft . It's very complicated at first - overwhelming, actually - but, you make it doable for
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.
@terrydaktyllus1320
Жыл бұрын
I didn't think it - if that helps at all.
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.
@lawrenceallwright7041
Жыл бұрын
They said Newton was mad. They said Einstein was mad. They said my Uncle Louis was mad. Actually, they were right on that one. Uncle Louis was mad as a box of hornets.
Really neat. Nice to see how versatile the Raspberry Pi is.
Nice work Chris. I just don't know how you find the content every week but you do. Keep up the great work.
I'm impressed! I had no idea this was even in development, but that's why I follow you :)
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.
@chiwaiyu2012
Жыл бұрын
Yv
@aDifferentJT
Жыл бұрын
The reason there are no drivers is that Qualcomm had an exclusivity agreement with Microsoft for Windows on ARM, but we believe that that deal is soon to expire.
Thanks for another Sunday vid in the USA. Good show! Windows ARM on the Raspberry Pi foreshadows what may very well be a glimpse of the possibilities of the Pi 5, 6, 7, ... as "Hope Springs"!
Loved the comparison to snails when doing Windows updates. Great overview!
Amazing! I just got my hands on an RPI 4b with 2gb ram. I'm super excited about applications with machine learning on the Pi.
This is very exciting and makes me hopeful for the future raspberry pi models.
Jolly superior video, once again 👍. A perfect presentation of possible solipsistic prolepses powered by energy-sipping ARM crisps. With appreciation and regards.
What a great video. Your eccentric characteristics really shined in a really good way. "I am going to wait and have tea!" You are wonderful, good sir!
Wow that's amazing! Another great video, thank you Chris!
Great video Chris! I will be trying this out next week. Easy to follow instructions, all I need now is a few snails 🐌 to pass my time.
I do have a limited data right now, but since a new ExplainingComputers video is up, I must watch it 😁👌
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! :)
@andrevc85
2 ай бұрын
If on limited mobile data just set the resolution to 360p
Brilliant little oddity here, great glimpse! I especially enjoyed the tea and snail sidebars, nicely done!
My birthday today, so this was a very interesting video. The fact that you can run Windoze at all on a PI is quite amazing. It seems to be reasonably responsive too, considering that Windoze 11 expects much more modern PC hardware and not an ARM SBC. Great video. Thanks for posting. Not had much luck trying to run Windoze apps under WINE in various Linux distros - I wonder how this setup would work with some Windoze application installs? I have a PI4, so perhaps I will try it out just for the purposes of experimentation.
@terrydaktyllus1320
Жыл бұрын
I would put "a Windows 11 license" above "another pair of socks" in my "Top Ten List of Least Favourite Birthday Presents" - at least another pair of socks might be of use eventually.
All the snail bits were wonderful. Incredible video!
This was interesting. I think Windows 11 would likely best fit on a proper X86/X64 based SBC like some of the other's you've shown on the channel. Full props to the folks who got it working!
@BilisNegra
Жыл бұрын
Well, yes, and that makes all the more sense now we cannot get Pi's at their proper price anyway. A latte Panda V1 4GB/64GB is 159 USD (139 EUR/122 GBP) now, which is less than what scalpers will have you pay for a Pi 4. To be sure, it is not exactly a powerhouse with its Atom processor, but for some purposes, it will do the job and properly supports Windows.
@lexluthermiester
Жыл бұрын
@@BilisNegra The Latte Panda would certainly be more powerful than an RPi4, even with the limitation of the Atom SOC, which(if we're being fair) isn't a garbage SOC.
Thanks so much for the great content as always 😊, I needed some help flashing windows on my 8gb rpi-4 wor-flasher on windows never worked right even when writing on an SSD and all the other Linux tutorials were super confusing and didn't exactly work for me, been watching u since the collosus video I believe, love your channel man
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching. :) Visiting Colossus seems so long ago now.
An extraordinary video! I would also like to thank WoR and Botspot for their stirling work - well done to all involved! However, I am worried that the Anatidae in the park are not getting the attention they deserve, and various slimy Mollusca have slithered in to your affections.
An interesting and entertaining video; your dialogue was very funny, especially about the snails. Shows how flexible the Pi is. I haven’t got one, thinking of getting a Pi, a 400, at Christmas.
This is cool! I have Win11 ARM installed on my 16” MBP using Parallels. Which I think is the only place I’ll be installing Win11, for now.
Wow. Another gem Chris. Thank you. Snails:2 MoT:1 Ducks:NIL
Nice Video Chris, thanks for all you do.
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 (kzread.info/dash/bejne/daOp2s-Hodu1ZKQ.html) to Smart Home Solver (kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2tn15OMYNy3n6g.html) 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. :) ps. These brits suck: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2F5mcGPeK_cm6g.html you should be ashamed of your country. ok, ok, maybe not as much as what america's produced: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k414yNmOet2_gco.html busting your chops hoss, tryin' a make ya think. I'm here all week, tip your waitress.
@Axl_Pose
Жыл бұрын
Both excellent bands!
@mtranchi
Жыл бұрын
@@Axl_Pose all day hoss :)
Thanks for making such a great video!
Interesting possibilities for Rasberry. Thanks for the video.
I love this guy thank you Chris for making good videos for over years
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching. :)
Always look forward to having EC publishing another video. Makes my Sundays a little better.
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!
@dang48
Жыл бұрын
LOL. Good point there. May not be the height of fashion but practical when you need to put on some footwear quickly and just don't have the time or energy to find your shoes. ;-)
@anon_y_mousse
Жыл бұрын
@@dang48 Aha, so now I know what Linus of LTT's secret account is.
@dang48
Жыл бұрын
@@anon_y_mousse :D
@ninline2000
Жыл бұрын
Agree. Cool to see but since I don't run Windows on my desktop, I'll certainly not bother doing it on my Pi 4.
Another great video - Thanks, Chris. Oh and thank the snail for his/her input.
It's Sunday already? Greetings Chris. This is an interesting video.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Sunday seems to come around faster and faster!
Fascinating! I'm surprised it was able to run that well.
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!
Impressive! Thank you for this.
Nice already Sunday I love your raspberry pi videos
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Greetings!
Thank you Chris for yet another interesting & informative video. Maybe in the not too distant future things will have developed to provide an ultra low power desktop capable of running Windows 12 or 13 (over to the dark side), he shivers now there's a thought. On the flip side I hope that Raspberry Pi will have matured further giving the competition a run for their money. :)
Another great and very informative video.For people who are just starting out with this tech, Explaining Computers is the best place to start.
I really hope ARM-based computer will be part of the industry because X86 hardware is so expensive in developing country.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
And RISC-V too! :) 2023 will be an interesting year for non-x86 hardware.
@stephensu4371
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I will be quite happy to see them supporting various architecture including arm RISCV and MIPS and I hope they can run any old days x86 code by Virtual machines on any CPU architecture and for the new code I hope they can compile for all architecture (Write once, run anywhere), if I can't run all the old software on Windows any more, I have no reason to stay with Windows any more even they turn to arm based
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
Interesting and well presented thanks.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Greetings! :)
You channel is really good, thank you for the quality content
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
You are most welcome. Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much for making this video tutorial
Great video for Raspberry Pi win 11 amazing it works. Learned something new and very interesting. thanks for sharing Peter, Love watching your videos.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mike.
Hey Chris, I really enjoy your videos.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
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?
6:40 Now unlocking his Windows machine is a cakewalk while Chris chats with a passing snail 😂 BTW, great video as always Sir.
Thanks for the information, I quite interested in Windows on arm
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
I have to admit, I was surprised how well it worked on the Pi.
Hey Chris, thanks for the splendid (as always) video. Have you tried installing Microsoft office on the pi? And it would be rather interesting to install windows again on another pi from an SSD this time and compare the two pi's to check whether there is a difference in performance between them.
Thanks, I installed win 11 on one of my Rasp. following your video and everything works.. it's not a rocket but it works ... Thanks .. Greetings from Florence
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Greetings. A slow rocket! :)
A really cool look.....thanks, Chris!
Amazing Chris, thanks for sharing!
Seems stable. Hope the next version of PI can support windows in usable way.
@kevinshumaker3753
Жыл бұрын
Why not the other way around?
@rogerkoh1979
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinshumaker3753 would be great too.
This is really cool in concept. I wonder how windows 10 behaved in the pi. There are theories on old windows too but probably with a virtual machine unlike this. Great video.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Windows 3.1 runs well on a Pi using DOSBox: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5h8s81yaaiahqQ.html
It will be interesting to review once video drivers are available to test DirectX compatibility on ARM. I appreciate you and the superb video.
@jothain
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely 👍
Excellent video now my Sunday is complete!!
That's cool I didn't think it would run as well as it did
Great video, as always. To be honest, I probably won’t ever try this, but it’s nice to know that it’s possible.
Thanks for making the video idea I suggested 😀
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
No problem! :) It was an interesting thing to try.
I'll hear that ending again in my nightmares. 😬
@ExplainingComputers
7 ай бұрын
That's nice.
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
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Now this I must try! Noted with thanks.
Great video as always! Hope that snail was nice.
@kevinshumaker3753
Жыл бұрын
Tasty, with lots of garlic...
@Praxibetel-Ix
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinshumaker3753 Poor snail! 😔😅
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your support. One of the snails is still mulling around somewhere.
@Praxibetel-Ix
Жыл бұрын
@@ExplainingComputers You're very much welcome! And that's great to hear. 🐌❤️
That's neat you can run windows 11 on the raspberry pi Chris! Thanks for always sharing with us!👍💖😎JP
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
No problem 👍
Thanks, Chris! I've known about this for a number of years, but nevertheless, it's great to see this demonstrated.
Thank you very much for another great video 🤩👋👋
I've just re-watched this video on a Pi400 running Windows 11. But I can't "customise" it to get audio over HDMI without activating it with a license key. Most impressive. A couple of hints: don't try to do the download over a slow link, don't try to install to a slow usb drive.
@jothain
Жыл бұрын
Just go insider and run Windows test versions for free. That's what I'd do.
That looks like fun. I'll dig out my Pi400 when I get home and give it a go.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Hi Graham -- this is indeed a fun project to try. And it worked far better than I expected.
A big thing for this kind of processor architectures (ARM and RISC-V) over x86-64 and IA-86 (which we still use for majority of computers today) is that not only it benefits for small package design, portability, and energy usage, but also in ARM-based operating systems will have their own benefits in mobile operating systems (things like idling/standby with lowest power possible, asymmetric process, and others). Unfortunately, majority of Windows applications were not optimized for ARM (or sluggish when running it on emulation), compared to macOS' Rosetta 2 emulation and Universal 2 binary (one app with both Intel and ARM bits). It would be grateful to see if majority of the Windows apps were fully optimized for ARM, just like the Universal 2 binary's up to.
@terrydaktyllus1320
Жыл бұрын
Windows has never been optimised on anything - it has always been a bloated mess.
Your video is very helpful.. thank you so much
Talk to a snail, Chris? Like that bit of sarcasm. Looks like those guys @WoR did a great job. Amazing how well Win11 runs on a Pi4.
An interesting runthrough Chris - just wish I could buy a Pi somewhere!
Funny, i did exactly the same few weeks ago, don't install the available updates though or the pi won't boot anymore. I think if they could implement the GPU drivers this would already massively increase the performance even more. All together i was impressed by it running and hope to see more of it soon.
The video is was waiting for months is finally here
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
I got there in the end! :) I did a lot of checking on the legal side of this.
@pavan13
Жыл бұрын
@@ExplainingComputers I knew that you might be checking the legal side this project that's you were bit late on making this amazing video
I'll look at it on a 8GB unit. Just want to be able to change the music of my apple devises, and not just download the photos (which is the only thing I can do through Linux to date)... Great as always. Christopher, I just hope Itunes can be installed.
this truly is incredible to see
Very interesting Christopher, thanks for sharing
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Brian, great to see you here. :)
You are the Best! Thanks for share.
That was a good looking brew!
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
It was.
Interesting to see, even if I really don't use windows anymore. Another good video.
Thank you Chris. This is an amazing development.
Great video, found that really interesting
I particularly liked the cheeky ant. Do snails make better conversation, or ducks? I suspect it's ducks.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Yes, ducks make better conversation.
@chrisweddle2577
Жыл бұрын
I agree. I have never had a satisfactory conversation with a snail.
Thank you for another great video
thank for your channel. in this channcel every help my project .
What we really need is Win11 on Arm running on an Apple Silicon Mac. Then we can have Bootcamp back. But this is definitely a step in the right direction. Thanks for the video.
@user-xr3rb6pn9m
Жыл бұрын
It does run already. and pretty well. It's just not officially supported or licensed by Microsoft yet (hope they will do so one day so you can run it without breaking any laws).
@LMacNeill
Жыл бұрын
@@user-xr3rb6pn9m oh, does it? I thought Microsoft had specifically done something to prevent it from running on Apple silicon.
@PixlRainbow
Жыл бұрын
@@LMacNeill Microsoft hasn't done anything beyond, well, refusing to do anything. Windows doesn't specifically block Apple Silicon in any way, it just hasn't got the right drivers. And it is completely legal and within Terms of Service to run Windows on an Apple Silicon Mac -- Apple does not restrict you from installing other operating systems, and Microsoft does not restrict you from running Windows on unsupported platforms. But neither will they raise a finger to help make it work, so it will be up to a third party.
@LMacNeill
Жыл бұрын
@@PixlRainbow I swear I read somewhere that Microsoft and Qualcomm had signed an exclusivity agreement, such that Microsoft was not allowed to license Windows on any ARM SoC that wasn't made by Qualcomm. Am I remembering that wrong?
Another great video. Thank you Chris. When you had a tea break I saw a chocolate bar. What kind was it and was it your favourite? If not do you have a favourite? I am from Canada and did not recognize the brand. This kind of detail I find interesting as it adds to the detail and memories for a real person hosting a weekly show on youtube. Enjoy the week and I hope to see another video very soon.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
I think it was a Yorkie bar. :)
@stevenlace7902
Жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkie_(chocolate_bar)
8:37 - there is HDMI audio support, you just have to switch the audio device in the Windows settings.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Ah, this I must try. Thanks. :)
I think windows 11 is terrible for all users because of this gated content via microsoft account but using it on arm is a genius move. 10 years late but still a genius move. Great video by the way.
Excellent and useful explanation, thank you May God Bless.
Thanks for the video.. can you over clock the pi 4? Also noticed you where using an A1 SD card.... Is it any better for an A2 card? Also a pi 400 may perform better as it's clocked faster? Is it 32 bit os? I have a pi 4 8gig ram version using to teach my son computers and basic programming/electronic projects etc. Is it possible to dual boot this with raspberry os?
I was just about to check for the latest video, and up pops the notification.
@ExplainingComputers
Жыл бұрын
Wow! :) KZread is working.
Windows on arm ) I think that drives the final nail into "linux-as-desktop" coffin... So good!