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You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-what-it-is-worth dept.

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.

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  1. Then you have two problems by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Then you have two problems by Dan+East · · Score: 1, Insightful

      The only reason to run Windows is to use the Office Suite for compatibility

      Wow, there is one, and only one, reason to run Windows, the most widely used desktop OS in the world. That's quite a mind blowing revelation there. I bet you did a lot of research to come to that conclusion.

      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.

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    2. Re:Then you have two problems by Locutus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That pathetic excuse to keep Windows around has been around for decades and is false. The iPhone proved that wrong and so has Android. Not to mention, Microsoft has constantly forced massive GUI changes on it's users which has constantly required them to learn a new UI. So even Windows users can learn new user interfaces.

      Time for another reason why anyone would want Microsoft Windows on a useful Raspberry Pi. Please note the word "useful".

      LoB

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    3. Re:Then you have two problems by Dan+East · · Score: 1, Insightful

      That pathetic excuse to keep Windows around has been around for decades and is false.

      iOS replaced Windows? You run iOS on your laptop and desktop computers?

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    4. Re:Then you have two problems by rnturn · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Oy! I don't think you understood the point of that statement.

      I never heard anybody bitch about their iPhone not looking like Windows. Nor have I heard bitching that Android didn't look like Windows. In both cases, users learned those not-Windows interfaces.

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  2. One question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why?

  3. The capabilities of Average Joes... by mykepredko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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