I have both a 950 and a 950 XL in a box here gathering dust. They're not worth enough to try and sell second hand anymore, so I'll definitely be trying this!
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
#22Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#23I 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.
Mandatory "always install a clean version, don't use a distro from your vendor".
If you take an OEM/RTL/GVLK .iso and just install it on anything with a decent SSD/NVMe drive than it would work fine. Bay Trail Atoms with 2GB RAM definitely took a hit after being updated to Win10 (well old one, like 15xx, not a modern one) but were still usable, the biggest trouble were atrocious eMMC drives, not the CPU or RAM.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#24I 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.
Mandatory "always install a clean version, don't use a distro from your vendor". If you take an OEM/RTL/GVLK .iso and just install it on anything with a decent SSD/NVMe drive than it would work fine. Bay Trail Atoms with 2GB RAM definitely took a hit after being updated to Win10 (well old one, like 15xx, not a modern one) but were still usable, the biggest trouble were atrocious eMMC drives, not the CPU or RAM.
To be fair, this is no longer true. Windows will recognise your hardware (with some help from UFEI from OEM) and install OEM drivers automatically.
Companies such as HP have abused this by installing all kind of crap including "analytics" as drivers.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#25They assume that their readers know what WOA abbreviates and what Lumia is and apparently at their Web site won't say. Hmm.
WOA - Windows on ARM
Lumia - a series of smartphones from Microsoft/Nokia
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mandatory "always install a clean version, don't use a distro from your vendor". If you take an OEM/RTL/GVLK .iso and just install it on anything with a decent SSD/NVMe drive than it would work fine. Bay Trail Atoms with 2GB RAM definitely took a hit after being updated to Win10 (well old one, like 15xx, not a modern one) but were still usable, the biggest trouble were atrocious eMMC drives, not the CPU or RAM.
To be fair, this is no longer true. Windows will recognise your hardware (with some help from UFEI from OEM) and install OEM drivers automatically. Companies such as HP have abused this by installing all kind of crap including "analytics" as drivers.
> install OEM drivers automatically
Just like it did all the time. It was called Windows Update.
Now the real problem is what there are:
a) drivers with a their own Electron control panel for controlling... what a .cpl with a single tab would suffice
b) things what are pushed down what aren't even drivers per se. Got a bunch of shit from ASUS this way.
Though there are ways to selectively ban such 'updates', sadly not in the GUI.
Re: Lumia WOA Project – Windows 10 or Windows 11 Desktop OS for Lumia 950/XL
#27They assume that their readers know what WOA abbreviates and what Lumia is and apparently at their Web site won't say. Hmm.
WOA - Windows on ARM Lumia - a series of smartphones from Microsoft/Nokia
Thanks! Actually I'm shopping for a smartphone! So, it turns out, actually, I AM in the "targeted market"!