New Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast+Skip Build 18956 (20H1) - August 7 Insider

martyfelker said:

Well I drank the Kool-Aid and installed Windows 10 for Workgroups on my physical machine. I also installed the full complement of Hyper-V features. So far no performance changes but I did learn how to use Diskpart to delete all the Windows 10 Pro partitions and more important convert an MBR disk (don't know why Win 10 Pro installed MBR - may the SSD Manufactorer. I willing to wait until 7/31/20 to either find a cheap license or ditch the whole thing. I found one that looked reputable for $150 but that's still a rip-off compare to Manjaro which of course is free. and so far better.

Hi there

@martyfelker

I think you meant Windows for Workstations -- !!!!!!!!

Windows for workgroups is really old (Windows 3.11)

Remember :



To see performance improvements of Windows 10 Workstation compared with the standard W10 PRO you do need to have good hardware -- dual (or more) processor systems really show it especially if they have hyperthreading on all the cores (in my case 8) enabled.

On bog standard machines You probably won't see much difference - Gamers might of course although Windows 10 workstation is probably more like W10 Enterprise -- also thankfully leaves out a lot of the hideous Bloatware.

No way can I get any VM to work with VMWare workstation on Linux Host with kernel 5.2.6 or 5.3 -- works (with patch) on 5.2.5

However installed standard W10 for Workstations on my normal laptop -- perfect. I can't really use this build as a VM even on a Windows Host as I can't get Bridged Networking to work with this build tried VBOX as well --hideous compared with VMWare (IMO) -- same problem -- that's a showstopper for the VM -- I've got another spare machine but I don't want to mess it up so Il created a "Windows to Go" system for continuing to test this build on until issues with VM's and Networking fixed. Got the W2GO system on external fast USB (3.1) -->SATA connection so performance is fine.

Experimenting with XEN and KVM as well -- but for messing around with VM's and fiddling with hardware VMWare IMO is the only practicable option as you don't have Driver problems (normally !!!!) and can usually load specific eseoteric hardware drivers directly into the VM which is a pain if using HYPER-V (if not impossible) or other HYPERVISORS.

If you got VMWare to work with kernel 5.2.6 or higher - what did you do and what distro.

Cheers
jimbo

My PC is not going into sleep mode for 18956. I recall it may have also been an issue for 18945 & 18950
powercfg -requests doesn't show anything
powercfg /devicequery wake_armed doesn't show anything
Any ideas?

Hi there
another possible defect -- Can't build Macrium rescue iso or directly to usb - both methods fail.







Cheers
jimbo

Hi there
On a VM it worked so I'll have another go on the real machine again -- will re-install the system with a fresh UUP download -- I notice there were 2 Windows Workstation selections -- not sure what the difference is but chose the other one this time.

I'll see what happens.

Cheers
jimbo