Mathematica 14 on modern Windows (arm64) is almost unusably slow. So basically none of the new Windows Copilot AI PCs on X Elite will work, and none of the 5G / always connected / etc. So it's a huge miss for Wolfram in general.
But instead I figured that you can actually install and use the Raspberry PI version of it in Windows WSL and it works flawlessly and without any performance issues (although the distribution seems to be somewhat limited/cut-down even when using the official activation key)
So the steps to install Mathematica on Windows are:
- enable WSL & install Ubuntu 22 from Windows Store
- (highly recommended: install Terminal from Windows Store)
- Go to https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ and download the installation script with the button on the center of the web page
- Copy from downloads folder to Ubuntu/home/<your username>/
- Open Terminal and open Ubuntu console
- chmod +x ./install-wolfram-engine-14.0.0.sh
- run script with ./install-wolfram-engine-14.0.0.sh
- wait & complete all prompts answering Yes
- once all is complete, type Mathematica in command prompt
- activate & use
