The Nintendo Switch has a pretty serious hardware vulnerability that leaves it open to all kinds of exploits, and we’ve previously seen it running Linux thanks to the work of some hackers. Meanwhile, since Microsoft introduced Windows 10 on ARM, developers have been working to port it to unsupported ARM devices, including the Lumia 950. So, it would seem that it’s only a matter of time until these two paths intersect, and that seems to have happened now.
A Twitter user by the name of @imbushuo has posted pictures of attempts to install the ARM version of Microsoft’s operating system on Nintendo’s hybrid console. The developer has noted some issues and documented many of the problems he encountered on Twitter, but progress is being made. The latest status update simply shows the Windows boot logo on the screen, with imbushuo noting that some work still needs to be done, specifically in regards to memory regions.
I’m not entirely sure just how useful it would be to run Windows 10 on the Switch, but that doesn’t make it any less of an impressive effort.
Well, the Switch has a multi-touch touchscreen, USB, and Bluetooth.
If you install Windows on it, you get a tablet that you drop into a dock for a full working Desktop computer, keyboard, mouse, and all.
That’s pretty damn cool.
Do this the other way around, Turn my Nvidia shield into a Switch. The hardware is mostly the same. I know it’s a big and probably impossible ask, but would be awesome.
There are no drivers for the vast majority of the subsystems, I have no idea why they thought this was an idea worth pursuing.