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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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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"
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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
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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Sure you would. And all those sweeet peripherals. Like the browser. And the VMs...
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While my Nextcloud on Raspi is working, I want more. And it isn;t going to come from Windows unless someone (?) hacks up Windows Server to run the ARM kernel, and even then it's not at all attractive.
I'm more likely to figure out which of the competitive ARM boards is a good deal if I want more performance.
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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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>>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!
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?
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
And the "Incompatible Timeshare System" (ITS)*?
It is true a PDP8 was useful without an OS, but if you had more than 4k words of core, you could have an OS if you wanted.
On my PDP8, ITS supported 2 users, but some people had bigger machines than me!
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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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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"....
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!
Okay, but the Windows kernel has FEWER vulnerabilities than the Linux kernel. What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
Fewer disclosed vulnerabilities, as well as fewer features and more separation between core kernel and drivers.
What happened to all those eyes? Where are they looking?
Clearly those eyes are looking, and thats why the vulnerabilities are being found and fixed.
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.
Only when the security bug has been discovered externally by a third party who is planning to disclose (or use) the bug anyway. There have been several cases of updates also silently fixing undisclosed bugs as well as those declared in the update advisory.
Security bugs fixed during the development cycle are not disclosed, or point me to the list of security advisories fixed during the alpha/beta cycle of any windows version?
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