With a group on GitHub we currently trying to get Windows 10 for ARM working on a Raspberry Pi.
We already booted the Desktop!
Still there are numerous driver which have to be written like USB host controller, WiFi, Audio. So pretty much everything, but I think this will follow soon.
Also we tested WoW (Windows on Windows) which is an x86 emulator for ARM processors and I have to say, it’s pretty fast!
Let’s see how we will keep this. I’ll keep you guys updated.
Since I love to be free in what I’m doing I decided to use Xpenology instead of an real Synology and never suffered problems with it. Meanwhile I had multiple systems, on real hardware and virtual systems.
Hardware used before
I decided to switch since I really needed more power for all the services I were running and also switched from real hardware to a virtual machine. Why? It makes it much more easier to update the kernel, since all my systems running in a wallmounted rack with no monitor.
Yes, the Supermicro board got KVM, but still I’m a lazy person which doesn’t always want to run there to mount a USB stick.
At all I can say, it’s really stable, sometimes waiting for a new bootloader coming up isn’t nice, but even without the newest updates, it works fine.
After around 4 years one of the 2TB disks died, while it was a desktop one. I think around 39000 hours ontime. And I have to say, for a desktop disk it’s a really good time. I have replaced the desktop drives with Seagate IronWolfs.