Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck can be installed Linux distribution and, in the case of the latter, Windows 11 can also be installed, although it is not a quick or easy process. Twitter user PatRyk showed that he had a lot of time on his hands and installed Windows 11 on a Nintendo Switch.
They install Windows 11 on the Nintendo Switch
The result of installing Windows 11 on the Nintendo Switch is as expected because the hardware of the equipment is almost 10 years old, with a 4-core Tegra X1 SoC, 4 GB of memory and an NVIDIA Maxwell GPU.
The version you used for installation is ARM version of Windows 11, a version designed to work specifically on this type of processor and this via a virtual machine of a Linux distribution on which the user does not offer more information.
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While it is true that with 4 GB of RAM, Windows 11 should not do too badly, if we take into account that it was installed via a virtual machine (virtual machines share the hardware resources of the host computer), it should come as no surprise that, to perform virtually any action, the computer takes an average of 10 seconds. Not to mention that the installation took 3 hours in total.
The Linux distribution you have installed works without any problems, at least until you run a game. In the same thread where he published the video where we can see Windows 11 on the Nintendo Switch, he published another video where he runs the Steam title Peggle.
At that point, the console thinks a lot about running it in a process that lasts over two minutes and shows very slow and maddening performance. Despite very low requirements, the Nintendo Switch is not capable of running it with the fluidity necessary to be able to play smoothly.
The fact that you were able to install Windows 11 on such a low-power computer is an example of Microsoft’s success in launching an ARM version of its operating system.
The Nintendo Switch 2 for 2025
There Nintendo Switch2which we have been talking about for several years, was finally confirmed a few weeks ago by Nintendo itself, without mentioning it by name and its launch is scheduled for Nintendo’s 2025 fiscal year which ends on March 31 of the year that arrived. there is still a lot of time left.
Given that the hardware of the current Nintendo Switch dates from 2015, it is expected that at a minimum, the hardware implemented by this new generation of Switch will be much more current to offer similar performance to that of the PS4 Yes Xbox One according to various sources.
