, one of the most extreme lightweight projects, achieves an ISO size of approximately 2GB and takes up about 3.3GB of disk space after installation.
The official Windows 11 24H2 ISO is (compressed). Even a “Lite” version from Microsoft (Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC) is ~3 GB compressed. windows 11 highly compressed 500mb
Even with the most aggressive lossless compression tools available, a 5.5 GB file cannot physically be squeezed down to 500MB (a 90% reduction) without breaking the operating system. It is mathematically impossible to fit millions of lines of code, system drivers, graphical assets, and core libraries into such a small container. , one of the most extreme lightweight projects,