Hacking Windows 10 on Nintendo Switch?

[IceWolf99]

A few months ago, Windows released a version of Windows 10 that runs on ARM chips. So I was wondering if it's possible for someone to get ahold of the Windows file and boot it onto the Switch?

 

[RobXcore]

A few months ago, Windows released a version of Windows 10 that runs on ARM chips. So I was wondering if it's possible for someone to get ahold of the Windows file and boot it onto the Switch?

You should try it by yourself, there are a lot of threads and people waiting for their meals to be served at their beds instead of going to the kitchen and do it themselves.

EDIT: There is also a search button where you can check if there's an answer for your question, which I'm pretty sure there is.

 

[Deleted-442439]

Well, you need drivers, skip signature checks and a few other hurdles to get it working, so I am relatively certain none have bothered, or will ever do it tbh, Linux is a lot more powerful and lightweight for hacking purposes.

 

[Zhongtiao1]

What would you use Win 10 on ARM for anyways? You can't run normal x86 apps on it. So no games, barely any apps. If you want any applications, you'd have to recompile them yourself.

 

[Shadow LAG]

No, this is an ARM based system and Windows 10 needs drivers. Drivers for hardware that do not have open source documentation. Even if you got Windows to load, all you could use is UWP apps since executables don't support ARM. Stick with Linux, any other OS is a loss of functionality.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

No, this is an ARM based system and Windows 10 needs drivers. Drivers for hardware that do not have open source documentation. Even if you got Windows to load, all you could use is UWP apps since executables don't support ARM. Stick with Linux, any other OS is a loss of functionality.

Actually windows 10 arm has pretty good emulation that allows x86 software to run.
Please do some research next time before trying to correct others.
You won't have official driver support anyway, but that's also a problem with Linux so it's a bad point to make.

 

[Taffy]

Windows. It nags you about updates even more than Nintendo. "Update or burn in hell."

That aside, I'd like to see it happen.

 

[sj33]

The main hurdle is that it's closed source, so any of the required changes cannot be made.

 

[Zhongtiao1]

Actually windows 10 arm has pretty good emulation that allows x86 software to run.
Please do some research next time before trying to correct others.
You won't have official driver support anyway, but that's also a problem with Linux so it's a bad point to make.

The emulation is hardware side though, it isn't done through software. It all depends on the CPU itself whether the x86 emulation will work

 

[CuriousTommy]

You won't have official driver support anyway, but that's also a problem with Linux so it's a bad point to make.

But Nvidia officially made the open source Tegra drivers for Linux. They did most of the hard work. If you were to do this on Windows ARM, you have to rewrite everything from scratch. The problem on Linux is much smaller than Windows ARM.

The emulation is hardware side though, it isn't done through software. It all depends on the CPU itself whether the x86 emulation will work

I don't think so, seeing that someone was able to run an x86 app on the Raspberry Pi (They were able to get windows 10 to run on the Rasberry Pi).

 

[Zhongtiao1]

I don't think so, seeing that someone was able to run an x86 app on the Raspberry Pi (They were able to get windows 10 to run on the Rasberry Pi).

That was an emulation app that they created. CyberQuake was talking about the microsoft supported integration

 

[garyopa]

Call 1-800-Micro-Soft and ask them to release it! -- Or better let just have them buy Nintendo!

 

[DKAngel]

quick answer no: as the only arm cpu that is supported is the qualcomm 835? and its not even released yet

 

[smf]

quick answer no: as the only arm cpu that is supported is the qualcomm 835? and its not even released yet

Who cares about "supported"? That doesn't mean you can't do it.

Well, you need drivers, skip signature checks and a few other hurdles to get it working, so I am relatively certain none have bothered, or will ever do it tbh, Linux is a lot more powerful and lightweight for hacking purposes.

Not on the switch, but there is plenty of information out there to get you started https://www.windowslatest.com/2018/01/13/install-windows-10-arm-lumia-windows-phone/

 

[DKAngel]

Who cares about "supported"? That doesn't mean you can't do it.



Not on the switch, but there is plenty of information out there to get you started https://www.windowslatest.com/2018/01/13/install-windows-10-arm-lumia-windows-phone/

But there is no drivers for it at all, in which it wont work unless you build your own, which is what the lumia guy did

 

[smf]

But there is no drivers for it at all, in which it wont work unless you build your own, which is what the lumia guy did

I never said a unicorn was going to poo it out for you. Someone had to write a driver for Linux too. I've never understood the infatuation with Linux, it's like “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”.

 

[sj33]

I never said a unicorn was going to poo it out for you. Someone had to write a driver for Linux too. I've never understood the infatuation with Linux, it's like “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”.

The situation is slightly different in that Nvidia themselves already released Tegra drivers for Linux. They don’t have to be coded from scratch.

Ultimately, the open source nature of Linux and BSD make them more appealing from a developer perspective because the required changes can be made to make them work on the hardware in question, the Switch in this case.

 

[smf]

Ultimately, the open source nature of Linux and BSD make them more appealing from a developer perspective because the required changes can be made to make them work on the hardware in question, the Switch in this case.

How is it more appealing to developers that you don't have to develop anything?

Sounds like it's more appealing to slackers.

 

[Rune]

Sell your Switch and buy a GPD Win
(thought I'd contribute to the pile of useless replies)

 

[garyopa]

Just buy a nice windows 10 phablet like HP Elite X3, and then grab a pair of joycon conntrollers, and use app to connect them via bluetooth, and glue two rails on each side for them, and bang you have a Windows 10 Switch.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...indows-phone-thats-unambiguously-enterprisey/

It even comes with HP Desk Dock also!