This will probably be the most pointless OS available for the Pi. Without any x86 emulation (which of course would be excruciatingly painful on the Pi) you're stuck with the modern/metro apps and they're mostly crap!
This will probably be the most pointless OS available for the Pi. Without any x86 emulation (which of course would be excruciatingly painful on the Pi) you're stuck with the modern/metro apps and they're mostly crap!
But you can develop and sideload your own apps. That's the point of the little thing. And getting an experience with Visual Studio won't be lost should somebody pursue a career as a software developer.
But you can develop and sideload your own apps. That's the point of the little thing. And getting an experience with Visual Studio won't be lost should somebody pursue a career as a software developer.
But it does rather lose its point if there isn't actually a real Windows GUI on the Pi for the end-user. The developer might as well use the conventional Pi approach (Python etc.)
But it does rather lose its point if there isn't actually a real Windows GUI on the Pi for the end-user. The developer might as well use the conventional Pi approach (Python etc.)
There will be UI, there is no mysterious command line version of Windows, there are no tools to develop native ARM applications. It will be a version very similar to that for a phone with universal apps, which have GUI.
Pis running *nix. Windows doesn't doesn't have an integrated SSH server.
I really don't see the appeal of running Windows on a Pi (well, i don't see the appeal of running Windows anywhere, but even less so on a Pi). It's a non-GUI, extremely limited version of Windows that offers no benefits over the existing rich Linux ecosystem.
Pis running *nix. Windows doesn't doesn't have an integrated SSH server.
I really don't see the appeal of running Windows on a Pi (well, i don't see the appeal of running Windows anywhere, but even less so on a Pi). It's a non-GUI, extremely limited version of Windows that offers no benefits over the existing rich Linux ecosystem.
Non-GUI implies text/command line interface. The "Metro" interface is not command line ...
Anyway, the best OS to run on the Pi is what it was spritually supposed to - which is Risc OS. The original OS for the ARM processor (and still probably one of the best implementations of a desktop interface)
Pis running *nix. Windows doesn't doesn't have an integrated SSH server.
I really don't see the appeal of running Windows on a Pi (well, i don't see the appeal of running Windows anywhere, but even less so on a Pi). It's a non-GUI, extremely limited version of Windows that offers no benefits over the existing rich Linux ecosystem.
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Using Telnet, since Windows doesn't ship with SSH.
Is Telnet even still around?!
But you can develop and sideload your own apps. That's the point of the little thing. And getting an experience with Visual Studio won't be lost should somebody pursue a career as a software developer.
I use Putty on Windows for ssh support for my Pis
But it does rather lose its point if there isn't actually a real Windows GUI on the Pi for the end-user. The developer might as well use the conventional Pi approach (Python etc.)
There will be UI, there is no mysterious command line version of Windows, there are no tools to develop native ARM applications. It will be a version very similar to that for a phone with universal apps, which have GUI.
e.g. Angry Birds
Pis running *nix. Windows doesn't doesn't have an integrated SSH server.
I really don't see the appeal of running Windows on a Pi (well, i don't see the appeal of running Windows anywhere, but even less so on a Pi). It's a non-GUI, extremely limited version of Windows that offers no benefits over the existing rich Linux ecosystem.
Non-GUI implies text/command line interface. The "Metro" interface is not command line ...
Anyway, the best OS to run on the Pi is what it was spritually supposed to - which is Risc OS. The original OS for the ARM processor (and still probably one of the best implementations of a desktop interface)
Yes, fair comment