As an experiment that sounds more like a retrofuturist stunt than practical advice, a 2005 Sun workstation powered by an early AMD Opteron has been shown booting and running Windows 11—thanks not to official support but to a pared-down, community-built Windows image known as Tiny11 and an...
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archived isos
community tooling
cpu features
driver compatibility
e-waste
hardware policy
legacy hardware
opteron
popcnt
retro computing
security risks
sun workstation
tiny11
virtualization
windows 10 end of support 2025
windows 11
windows compatibility
windows-11
(Copied verbatim from the MS Technet forum. They don't seem to be quite as on the ball as you all are.)
At first, things seemed great. When it first boots into the OS after installation, Windows 7 runs beautifully. No hiccups, no issues, no complaints. Other than it missing a couple of drivers...