Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
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Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
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Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#2Much more interesting in my opinion is another part of this same project - Windows 11 for the Surface Duo[0], which, given the much newer SoC, actually provides a somewhat usable Windows experience that can actually run x86/64 software at a serviceable speed. I bought a Duo on the cheap specifically to do this with it, and I've actually found it convenient to have a true pocket Windows PC on hand every now and then. A lot of stuff doesn't work (camera, built-in speakers, charging in Windows), but they're working on it, and a bunch more does work (Bluetooth, WiFi, autorotation, 4g). Here's[1] a full list of what works and what doesn't. They're also working on the Duo 2, but compatibility with that one is way rougher right now.
[0]https://github.com/WOA-Project/SurfaceDuo-Guides
[1]https://github.com/WOA-Project/SurfaceDuo-Guides/blob/main/S...
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#3I wonder if they've also stripped out the bloat/spyware. Windows 10 already feels surprisingly sluggish on powerful desktop hardware, so I can't imagine a smartphone with 3GB of RAM and a 2GHz CPU would be any better.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#4Much more interesting in my opinion is another part of this same project - Windows 11 for the Surface Duo[0], which, given the much newer SoC, actually provides a somewhat usable Windows experience that can actually run x86/64 software at a serviceable speed. I bought a Duo on the cheap specifically to do this with it, and I've actually found it convenient to have a true pocket Windows PC on hand every now and then.…
I love my Duo 2 (after doing a ton of ADB `pm disable-user com.[microsoft|google].shitware` lol) and will definitely try this out once it's better supported.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#5The slogan "The phone that works like your PC" has definitely lived on!
Curious what's the experience like when running ARM applications, especially the GUI apps. Do they out perform the X64 counterpart? How about vs. Apple silicon?
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#6Much more interesting in my opinion is another part of this same project - Windows 11 for the Surface Duo[0], which, given the much newer SoC, actually provides a somewhat usable Windows experience that can actually run x86/64 software at a serviceable speed. I bought a Duo on the cheap specifically to do this with it, and I've actually found it convenient to have a true pocket Windows PC on hand every now and then.…
I love my Duo 2 (after doing a ton of ADB `pm disable-user com.[microsoft|google].shitware` lol) and will definitely try this out once it's better supported.
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Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#7I will pass
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#8The slogan "The phone that works like your PC" has definitely lived on! Curious what's the experience like when running ARM applications, especially the GUI apps. Do they out perform the X64 counterpart? How about vs. Apple silicon?
Lets start naming PC as Phone Computer.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#9The slogan "The phone that works like your PC" has definitely lived on! Curious what's the experience like when running ARM applications, especially the GUI apps. Do they out perform the X64 counterpart? How about vs. Apple silicon?
I suspect that the biggest pain point will be the wonky behaviour of the 950 when the battery starts getting low; it reboots under load with low battery.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#10The slogan "The phone that works like your PC" has definitely lived on! Curious what's the experience like when running ARM applications, especially the GUI apps. Do they out perform the X64 counterpart? How about vs. Apple silicon?
Lets start naming PC as Phone Computer.
Who even uses a phone majorly as a phone? Might as well be a PC that sometimes makes phone calls.