: By freeing up system resources, these versions are often marketed to gamers trying to squeeze every frame per second (FPS) out of weak hardware.
| OS | RAM usage (idle) | Disk space | |---|---|---| | Windows 10/11 LTSC (official) | ~1.5GB | ~20GB | | Linux Mint Xfce | ~600MB | ~15GB | | Tiny10 / Tiny11 (community, but better maintained) | ~1GB | ~10GB |
The goal is brutal efficiency: strip away every non-essential component to make the OS run on hardware that originally struggled with Windows 7 or Vista. The "64 bits" specification indicates it is designed for modern processors (x64 architecture), allowing it to address more than 4GB of RAM—a necessity for even light multitasking today.