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You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com)
Raspberry Pi is finally ready for the full Windows 10 experience. From a report: A new installer lets you put Windows 10 on Arm, including the Pi. And it's made by the same people who got Windows 10 on Arm onto Lumia 950 and 950 XL handset. You can find the Github page here, in which developer Jose Manuel Nieto Sanchez call the tool "super easy to use" and "no-hassle." It requires a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B or B+, a microSD card (he recommends an A1 rating) and a Windows 10ARM64 image, which is linked to from the page where you get the download instructions.
The only reason to run Windows is to use the Office Suite for compatibility with the modern bussiness world and much of the academic world. Thems the standards regardless of preferences or your personally proven experience with working outside the MSOffice-industrial-complex.
So if the raspi doesn't run Office what's the point of running windows?
You now are running a machine intended for being either a task specific embedded machine or as a light weight computer. Running windows on it instead of linux or some RT os is more of a dare (like scottish cuisine) than a useful idea.
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My initial reaction was that I'd prefer the O/S from the PDP-8 or even better the PDP-11 rather than Windows. So I'm a snob, big deal.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought this was already possible to do?
Why?
I run a Windows 10 VM on my Mac for those few software packages that need it. Most notably Solidworks and some MRP software. Office 365 runs on the Mac just fine.
So why would I do this on a Pi?
Compared to Linux (xwindows) making GUI applications with .NET and Visual Studio is a lot easier. I have seen projects with the Raspberry pi such as smart mirrors or low end kiosks. Which being able to make GUI applications, or that hook up to Microsoft type services such as Active Directory or even SQL server. Just that much easier to accomplish.
Having said that, doing this in Linux isn't too much more difficult, but if you are primarily a Microsoft Developer, thinking Linux Like is a learning curve you may not want to deal with.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
"Raspberry Pi 3 Model B mouse took just a day to move the mouse across the screen on windows 10"
Now you can put manure in you espresso machine!
While the RasPI series of boards is great, I find myself extending beyond them.
There are other ARM series boards, that provide a bit more power or features, that I find lacking with what the RasPi3 has honestly. Dont' get me wrong. I have several RasPi boards running actively in my house. However...
If you look up ARMBIAN Linux, it will give you a quick idea of other boards, less marketed out there that are available, and with solid communities around them.
The Asus Tinkerboard for instance, which I have, fits in a RasPi3 case just fine. Was likely engineered for that particular fact.
That said, WinARM on these type of boards.. leaves me luke warm. The general use of these boards is probably media boxes in some fashion, so unless WMP, VLC, KODI or the like run today on WinARM, or Chrome/Chromium with possible full support for the primary 3 streaming services ( Netflix,Hulu, Amazon).... I can say WinARM abillity today for me, leaves a bit to be desired.
Looking at what you can download, appears you need a Windows OS to deploy from, for the card? Ho hum... Will have to skip it then.
If someone can point out how to deploy this from Linux, please chime in!
Does it blend?
My biggest complaint about Win10 is really how slowly it runs on fairly low end machines (which I can load Mint or ChromeOS and they run acceptably). Note that the RasPI 3 runs ChromeOS quite as well.
So you have Win10 executing on the RasPI, but does respond in anyway that is acceptable? This includes loading and executing apps.
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Sure, but why the fuck would you do that!?
And less sarcastically... what about the average joe who would just like to use the OS environment they are already familiar with? That alone is a valid reason to run Windows 10.
How many "average joes" do you know that can properly configure an SD card with an OS to run on a RasPI?
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I want OS/2 Warp on a Raspberry PI !!!!!! OS2World.com
No GUI though.
But the question is: Why would you want to? Are there ARM versions of all the applications that people you might consider running on their R-Pi? If not, then this is an exercise about as pointless as someone successfully running Word on an iWatch.
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So, no discussion of how much of your life will be wasted in order to see that glorious blue screen of death as you try to register your copy of Windows 10. Don't forget to buy another copy of the OS. lol
The link on the Github page points to rg-adguard.net, under an anonymous Russian registration. Sounds legit!
Not really. If I were even considering the idea of running Windows on a Pi, I'd rather get it directly from Microsoft.
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WHY??
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
A Raspberry Pi would be so compelling if it had 4GB Ram, and it's ports were 5v, and as durable as an Arduino.
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As for running W10 on a board with 1GB of memory and a micro-SD card, is there really any point?
It should also be remembered that the only reason to run any version of Windows is to get access to the applications available. What apps are there for an ARM board running Windows. And what drivers, too?
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... would you want to infect a perfectly good Pi?
>>You Can Now Run Windows 10
That is so wrong on many levels.
Nobody should ever have to run W10.
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Good to see other OSes as slow on the RPi3+ as well - I thought I was doing something wrong!
There is a whole ecosystem of examples, tools, libraries, and helper utilities that go with Raspberry Pi built on Linux and it will be a PITA to shoehorn them into Windows or start from scratch to accomplish the same thing. Win10 on Pi is kinda DOA.
Every time you start up or shut down it will be "applying patches", also shortening the life of your SD card
Now I can run an operating system that drastically impedes productivity on hardware that should never be considered sufficient to run it. Is this just Microsoft trying to out-NetBSD the netBSD folks?
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Why in all that is holy would you want to pollute a Pi3 with Windows, even worse the tinker toy that is Windows 10?
Why oh why oh why would anyone want to use Windows on an R-Pi? Is this some new form of digital masochism?
I might run Windows on my laptop and my Desktop and have done since 3.0 but good lord, on a Pi? Why would you do this?
I'm so very impressed with my Pi and the flavour of linux which comes with it.
Linux is streamlined and reliable. It's predictable. If you ask it to do something, properly, it will do it, indefinitely.
The GUI that comes with the Pi is actually not half bad for speed either. Windows just isn't going to work well with that amount of memory.
At one point I wouldn't dream of anything but Windows in my house, now I have FreeBSD (NAS) I have linux for my HTPC (libreelec) and Linux for my DNS / home automation (Pi / Docker / Pi Hole / Hass.io)
I still don't mind Windows for Desktop, but man. Microsofts stuff doesn't belong on a Pi
I went out and found a VW engine, and swapped it into my corvette. Oooh, the bicyclists and pedestrians "ooh" in envy once we crest the hill and I pass them . . .
My next project *was* going to be putting Windows on a Pi, but since that's been done, I guess I'll move on to putting Microsoft BASIC 2.0 onto an Arduino . . .
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"Nobody do anything unless you've solved everything all at once!" That's the spirit.
I can see you in the 60s. "The moon? Why? Nobody can breathe there! There aren't any diners!"
Cue the predictable tired old rants of slashbots who haven't figured out that it isn't 1997 anymore. They don't get much more penguin-headed than me, and I'm typing this message on a computer running Windows. Guess what, people: WE WON. Linux runs the whole world except for the conventional desktop. Look at it this way: if Microsoft hasn't taken over the rest of the world by now, it's not going to. At the same time, if Linux hasn't captured the conventional desktop by now, it's not going to. In other words, it's safe to use a Windows desktop now if it's less friction for you. You don't have to be ashamed, you don't have to be afraid that you're contributing to the downfall of computing. Linux owns 100% of supercomputing, the lion's share of the cloud and mobile, it runs the Internet, it's the embedded OS of choice, and it dominates the IoT. Don't worry about the desktop -- it simply isn't important anymore.
That having been said, I'm not sure why one would want to run Windows on a Raspberry Pi, since as others have pointed out, it fails to provide the #1 benefit of running Windows: the vast library of x86 Windows software.
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"more of a dare (like scottish cuisine) "
Somebody has been watching 'So I Married an Axe Murderer"....
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
You aren't suppose to do this! Use Windows 7! not 10! BAP BAP BAP
It looks like Netflix https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/netflix/9wzdncrfj3tj?activetab=pivot:regionofsystemrequirementstab and Hulu https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hulu/9wzdncrfj3l1?#activetab=pivot:regionofsystemrequirementstab are possibilities although if possible, I would prefer to use one of the other more powerful ARM SBCs.
Just install windoze 10 on a raspi and have your very own portable self surveillance system.
I applaud whatever work was done to make this happen, but why would you run Win 10 if you have any choice ? I've a work machine with 7 and it's fine. I have one 10 machine, which confirms my mac bias for normal use.....
And has spyware and a keylogger built into their operating system - but derp Russia!
Decommissioned Station last I knew.
, the same reason windows is #1 for desktop malware - linux is everywhere, from supercomputers to routers, and actual running instances of the linux kernel probably outnumber windows 10:1 or more. Many people may have 1 windows desktop, plus a linux based router or access point, tv running linux, android phone with a linux kernel etc.
Looks like Linux developers keep introducing more and more security bugs. Anyone got banned from the community yet?
2, windows comes with very little application software or drivers, these tend to be distributed separately - the linux kernel comes with support for a wide array of hardware and most distros come with a huge suite of applications usually including multiple different applications you can choose from to accomplish any task.
Okay, but the Windows kernel has FEWER vulnerabilities than the Linux kernel. What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
3, linux is developed in the open so vulnerabilities discovered and fixed during early development of a new feature are public, windows is developed behind closed doors so bugs found at this stage are never made public, typically unless a vulnerability in windows is discovered by a member of the public it won't be published, if its discovered internally at microsoft or by a company thats under nda it is likely to be fixed silently and not disclosed.
That is entirely wrong. If a Windows update fixes a security bug, Microsoft issues a security advisory and the bug is publicly categorizied and a severity is assigned to it. Its called a Security Bulletin, and it has been happening this way for decades.
Nice try though, almost..