Windows 11 delenda est. Also inb4 "don't".

I feel like bluestacks used to be better but it gives off weird scuffed fremium windows software stink now. What's the best way to run Android apps on an x86-64 computer?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Windows Subsystem for Android.

    Or is it Android Subsystem for Windows?

    Android apps appear to run natively on Windows (so they're not in a VM looking box, they behave like Windows apps). They don't have access to the local file system, they have access to their own file system, just like using a phone.

    The easiest way to move files in/out is to use a file manager that can access SMB shares (like MiXplorer), or use Syncthing on the desktop and in the Subsystem, and sync a folder on the desktop.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        What's that mean?

        If you want help in some other language, maybe post in that language.

        You posted in English, with some non English in there, I have no idea wtfuck it is, so I ignore it.

        I gave you a solid answer, with a link, why you gotta be a dick?

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    2 months ago

    Some people have gotten Waydroid to work for this, not me though

    • ashinadash [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      I wish I used any Wayland based DE because of this zelensky-pain why it gotta be this way

        • ashinadash [she/her]
          hexagon
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          2 months ago

          I use KDE and XFCE usually, is what's stopping me. Am I gonna install an entire new OS for a single application? Or DE I guess, but I tried installing Wayland on Endeavour once and it kind of exploded.

          • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org
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            2 months ago

            You definitely dont need a new os or distro.

            I dont know endevour specifically, but xfce and kde look like they fully support wayland.

            Looks to be as simple as installing plasma-wayland-session then log out and you should have an option in your login manager to swap over to the wayland version of plasma. Xfce should be similar. If its fucked, just log back out and log in with xorg and go about your business.

            Dunno, just trying to help

            • ashinadash [she/her]
              hexagon
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              2 months ago

              Oh yeah I did that once, it broke my OS, I recall that. Somewhere at the login manager.

              Thanks anyway, at least I know the answer is the same as two years ago

          • zkrzsz [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            When did you try Wayland? It's pretty good now since KDE Plasma 6.1 (even on Nvidia).

            • ashinadash [she/her]
              hexagon
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              2 months ago

              Less than a year ago, I just used one of my random sloptops with an *ntel Core 2 Duo but it broke the install of Endeavour. Maybe I did something wrong...

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      waydroid works great on aarch64 IME but never actually tried it on x86

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    It's Waydroid. Since your current setup doesn't have Wayland, you could always try setting up a VM with a distro that has Wayland or even Waydroid already installed like VanillaOS.

  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Can confirm waydroid works fine.

    Also i dont know what its running under the hood, but i just installed minecraft bedrock launcher flatpak on my steamdeck. Which runs the android version.

    Waydroid can be sorta annoying to set up, id suggest not taking any shortcuts and install the base waydroid package then following the instructions on archwiki or whatever to manually install the appropriate container (gapps etc) rather than using the container package from your distro.

    I havent set this up in probably over a year so between my foggy memory and potential changes, take this as you will