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  • Nano11 compresses Windows 11 install footprint to as little as 2.8GB-- or does it?

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Sep 11 23:23:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    Wow, Dimdows is actually starting to approach the size of a lower-end
    Linux install, albeit with a lot more work <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/nano11-compresses-windows-11-install-footprint-to-as-little-as-2-8gb-extreme-experimental-script-is-3-5-times-smaller-than-tiny11-and-comes-with-none-of-the-fluff>.

    Or is it?

    After installation, the example Nano11 install actually uses up
    11.0GB of the 20GB virtual disk in the VM. It is only after NTDEV
    runs the 'Compact' command on the C: drive using LZX compression
    and then deletes the virtual memory page file that we see the
    installation reduced to around the 3.2GB level.

    So you have to START with a full Dimdows install, and then pare it
    down? So you need enough space for that full install anyway??

    This is why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth
    nothing.
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Thu Sep 11 19:29:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 9/11/2025 7:23 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    Wow, Dimdows is actually starting to approach the size of a lower-end
    Linux install, albeit with a lot more work <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/nano11-compresses-windows-11-install-footprint-to-as-little-as-2-8gb-extreme-experimental-script-is-3-5-times-smaller-than-tiny11-and-comes-with-none-of-the-fluff>.

    Or is it?

    After installation, the example Nano11 install actually uses up
    11.0GB of the 20GB virtual disk in the VM. It is only after NTDEV
    runs the 'Compact' command on the C: drive using LZX compression
    and then deletes the virtual memory page file that we see the
    installation reduced to around the 3.2GB level.

    So you have to START with a full Dimdows install, and then pare it
    down? So you need enough space for that full install anyway??

    This is why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth
    nothing.


    This is just a novelty anyway, what kind of device doesn't have the
    storage for the fuckin' OS? That's not the issue, the issue is whether
    it runs efficiently, and seeing 24H2 on this low-end device, I'm sold.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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