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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. Re:You can now peel off your finger nails by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not unless you subscribe to Pliers360

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

    Why?

  3. "in other news" by aod7br7932 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Raspberry Pi 3 Model B mouse took just a day to move the mouse across the screen on windows 10"

  4. 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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  5. Does Win10 "Run" on the RasPI or does it Crawl? by mykepredko · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  6. 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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  7. Re:One Key advantage by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have seen projects with the Raspberry pi such as smart mirrors or low end kiosks.

    This will be the only smart mirror that spends most of its time showing a popup like this:

    Heads up - We're working hard to make your Raspberry Pi even better! We need to restart now and show you spinning dots while we install the latest updates and "telemetry". This could take a few hours or days.

    Lose all work and restart now? [ OK ] [ Yes ] [ Confirm ].

  8. Re:Then you have two problems by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows also runs a lot of software that is Windows/Mac only. Visual Studio, Adobe products, Autodesk products. Then there are games (and game dev toolkits). There are also numerous internal apps.

    True, but hardly any of that is compiled for ARM processors.

    Yes, it might run under an x86 emulator, but would you really want to? It's already going to be incredibly slow because it runs off an SD card, adding emulation as an extra layer would be borderline masochistic.

    This might be useful if you want a familiar Windows user interface while surfing the web but not much more.

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