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RemixOS for PC released

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Re: RemixOS for PC released

#23
Is there really a chart comparing performance on an i7 to a bunch of smartphones? I'm having a really hard time seeing the point of that comparison. Why not benchmark against other PC operating systems, like say Chrome OS?

Re: RemixOS for PC released

#24
post #22

anyone managed to boot this off USB stick on macbook pro?

Trying to right now, there's 0 instructions provided for OSX booting other than to hold 'Option' for the boot loader which is pretty useless.

Hoping I can just dd it to my SD card and have it boot.

Edit: doesn't seem to want to boot from my SD card or recognize it as bootable.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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post #23

Is there really a chart comparing performance on an i7 to a bunch of smartphones? I'm having a really hard time seeing the point of that comparison. Why not benchmark against other PC operating systems, like say Chrome OS?

Notice the units too.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

#26
I have a little box for my TV running Android. The issue with all the apps is that 90% (looking mostly at games, I guess) of them more or less expect gestural input, and are either really difficult to play or just not fun with a mouse.

I doubt that particular issue is as bad in productivity apps etc., but there's a lot more to running a mobile app on a big screen than just resizing a window. Does this have some magic to solve that in a general way?

Re: RemixOS for PC released

#27

I have a little box for my TV running Android. The issue with all the apps is that 90% (looking mostly at games, I guess) of them more or less expect gestural input, and are either really difficult to play or just not fun with a mouse. I doubt that particular issue is as bad in productivity apps etc., but there's a lot more to running a mobile app on a big screen than just resizing a window. Does this have some magic…

It's really up to app developers to make sure their apps work ok (provide fallbacks if gesture heavy) for mouse.

I think we are in a period where Android is just starting to get used with mouse so I'd expect it to take a bit of time for things get in shape for mouse users.

Some apps work better than others

Re: RemixOS for PC released

#30

Anybody got this to work on VirtualBox? It's not moving past the bootloader screen for me, no matter what VM configuration I select.

It works fine for me, be sure to choose guest mode though. Virtualbox on a W10 host. edit: screenshot http://i.imgur.com/Ev7Kvil.png

Strangely, it didn't work at all on VirtualBox on Ubuntu, but worked on a Windows 7 host.

Thanks for the hint!

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