Yet another post with zero specifics and a lot of unsupported claims. As a white-collar professional I can run all the apps I use on a regular that worked on my SP7:
- Statistical software: SPSS, R-Studio
- MS Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote
- PDF apps: Drawboard PDF, PDF Pro Reader, ReadLoud
- Snapdrop
The only downside is that my battery life has taken a hit and dropped from 11.5-12 hours of continuous YouTube viewing (40% brightness, battery saver on) to 9.5-10 hours.
UPDATE: After uninstalling the "KB5003266" update, battery life has returned to 11.5-12 hours...
Did you try to run:
1. Matlab or
2. Mathematica 12.2
in an x64 emulator?
I am not sure if Matlab in recent installations (2021a) can be run or installed in x32. If on top of that you can run Ubuntu with WSL2 and get Xwindows native GUI support and if you tell me yes for points 1 or 2 above that they were running without crashes, I may consider using Insider version of Windows for my Surface Pro X. I happily run Insiders´ version on some Intel machine.
Marcin B
Matlab installs and runs on the Surface Pro X running Insider Dev Builds -