Command-line only installation recipe for low-resource systems

Copper Contributor

While Windows 11 is well and good in many regards, its minimum requirements for the GUI to successfully work is a bit too high for certain configurations. Hence, I would like to see an option to get an CLI-only installation (something like "safe mode with command prompt", but with no desktop at all).

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@erkinalp Download the Windows 11 ISO file and create a bootable USB drive using a tool like Rufus (for Windows) or Etchr (for macOS/Linux). Make sure to select the "Create bootable disk" option and choose the USB drive as the target device.

Not answering the question in the original post.

You'll need to have a Windows 10 installation media or a Windows 11 ISO file.
You'll need to have the Rufus utility installed on your system.
You'll need to have a USB drive with at least 8GB of free space.