“Using VRAM as a Ramdisk: Exploring Potential Uses and Limitations”

Idd, the only news value would be the format of the installation. However, making slimmed down windows versions is not something new either, I did this myself for Win XP – Win 7 (it was useful when a 16GB SSD was still very expensive ), sometimes some trial and error because you accidentally break out a dependency, but a child can do it in principle. The tool they use for the ramdisk might be new? The latest release is from 2017, so using VRAM as a ramdisk isn’t very new either.

The most curious thing I found was the term virtual memory. That’s either a typo for virtual memory, but that’s a swapfile and pretty much the opposite of what’s being done here (a tool to create a ramdisk in your swapfile is a nice April 1st release though ). Did they mean Video Random-Access Memory (VRAM) perhaps?

It might be a funny .geek article, but it’s not of any news value. Possibly if they make a tool that you can make a USB stick that has a few required basic drivers/tools and a heavily compressed file with Windows 11/Tiny11 and can boot directly to your VRAM without a virtual machine, that seems to me of some newsworthy (although that may already exist, but I don’t know about it). I do see some use in this application, in some cases a usb/SD card is too slow and you are running out of space internally (or there is write protection on the local storage), and then the VRAM can be some potentially unused space if you then still need to run a VM. A niche scenario but it can easily fill a niche.