How to install Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 4 (June update)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Type in your name and click on Next. Click on Limited experience. Select Use the latest package available on the server as marked in the screenshot below.
 
 

How to Install Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi? (Illustrated Guide) – RaspberryTips

 

Easily mount the boot partition of your Windows on Raspberry installation. Works directly on the Raspberry Pi or another computer. Download version 1. A simple hardware monitor for your Raspberry Pi running Windows. Download the latest version See the changelog.

FFU images can speed up the deployment process significantly , especially on slow devices. They are not available for download due to legal reasons, but you can safely generate them yourself: How to generate FFU images? And sometimes your letters do appear as soon as you type them, as they did when I opened Windows Notepad. Don\’t even think about playing videos on Windows 10 with Raspberry Pi.

And some of the frames were very pixelate. Streaming a video with the Netflix app was even worse; an episode of The Flash yes, I was going for irony played incredibly slow, and the app crashed after I tried to resize the window. Just for kicks, I ran Geekbench 4. By contrast, the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 and its Snapdragon processor scored 3, The lowest Geekbench 4.

It returned sequential reads and writes of just over 9 MBps with 4K reads and writes the more common type of 4. Even a low-end SSD is 20 to 30 times faster. Windows 10 Professional for Arm64 processors, the version I used, does not come with any optimizations for the Pi, its networking components or its GPU. To get Ethernet working on the Pi, I had to download a separate Ethernet driver and copy it into the Core Package before burning it to the microSD card. Then, after all that, it took 20 to 30 minutes of boots and reboots to even get to the initial Windows 10 setup menu.

Keep in mind, though, that any win32 app it launches is running via x86 emulation, which means that it is even slower than it might be. Chrome browser, a win32 app, is unbelievably sluggish, which makes it just a bit worse here than Edge browser, which is made to run on Arm.

Even with no programs running, Task Manager showed only about MB of free memory. Considering that Microsoft is reportedly working on a Lite version of Windows 10 ,and that Raspberry Pi Creator Eben Upton told me he would welcome full Windows to his platform, we could see a functional version of Windows 10 for Pi in the near future.

Most makers and students would probably prefer the super-lightweight Raspbian. But unless you really enjoy hacking things, this process is not worth your time.

 

Installing Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 4 – Botland – Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 4 requirements

 
Les Pounder is an associate editor at Tom\’s Hardware.