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Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by Piskvorrr »

derefr wrote: post #6
SG- wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that massive app ecosystem is designed for small screen phones and single window design. It also hasn't helped Windows Mobile at all with it's "massive" desktop ecosystem.

Small-screen phones and medium-screen tablets. And some netbooks. Pretty much the same as the set of devices Windows 8's Metro UI was designed for. Look what Windows 10 did with Metro apps: it took those "single-window designs" and just... stuck them in regular windows. And that works pretty well, it turns out.

So...we went from windowed apps to fullscreen apps and thence to windowed apps. Yaaaaay, fabulous progress! ;)

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by on_and_off »

746F7475 wrote: post #9
SG- wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that massive app ecosystem is designed for small screen phones and single window design. It also hasn't helped Windows Mobile at all with it's "massive" desktop ecosystem.

Imo if you can run existing Android apps in resizable windows it would be a huge win. There are many well made Android apps that would work just fine as their own windowed applications

some would definitely work pretty well.

Several streaming services have native apps on both mobile & desktop. I think that their mobile apps could run pretty well on desktop.

For many complex apps though (like anything dealing with text edition), the lack of hover & right clics handling would be a pain. Android supports 'hover' events (and since API 1 IIRC) but nobody implements them in custom widgets.

Android supports mouse input but even as an android engineer I have no idea what the right click does in that situation.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by moviuro »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #11
derefr wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Small-screen phones and medium-screen tablets. And some netbooks. Pretty much the same as the set of devices Windows 8's Metro UI was designed for. Look what Windows 10 did with Metro apps: it took those "single-window designs" and just... stuck them in regular windows. And that works pretty well, it turns out.

So...we went from windowed apps to fullscreen apps and thence to windowed apps. Yaaaaay, fabulous progress! ;)

From mainframes to Personal computers to Citrix. Progress too ;)

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by droelf »

nailer wrote: post #2

Awesome. It's much easier to make Android (with it's massive app ecosystem) a desktop OS than it is than to build an app ecosystem for traditional Linux desktops. Interestingly enough it doesn't look like there's an installer - they want you to run it from USB for now.

There is also project "shashlik" by the KDE folks which, if it works as advertised at some point, should make it possible to run Android apps natively in Linux.

https://github.com/shashlik/shashlik

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

Hmm, it requires legacy boot. I wonder why it doesn't support UEFI? Makes it hard for me to test this on the devices I would want to use it with.

EDIT: More research. Results:

There is an EFI system on this image, but it has a corrupted GPT. I fixed it with gdisk and I ran into some issues trying to boot it via EFI shell on one of my netbooks. My libreboot laptop was able to boot it but it gets stuck during bootup. Does not show up as an option for booting on my macbook. Going to try booting it via EFI shell on my desktop and report back.

Alright, got it to POST on my desktop, but it hangs during boot. On my libreboot laptop, it boots all the way to desktop if I do it in _guest_ mode. Pretty underwhelming once I got there, though.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by 746F7475 »

on_and_off wrote: post #12
746F7475 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imo if you can run existing Android apps in resizable windows it would be a huge win. There are many well made Android apps that would work just fine as their own windowed applications

some would definitely work pretty well. Several streaming services have native apps on both mobile & desktop. I think that their mobile apps could run pretty well on desktop. For many complex apps though (like anything dealing with text edition), the lack of hover & right clics handling would be a pain. Android supports 'hover' events (and since API 1 IIRC) but nobody implements them in custom widgets. Android suppor…

I know this is a cop-out, but wouldn't Google Docs work just fine in the browser here. I mean I haven't done any work on Google Docs, but I did use it all the way through uni.

Or maybe we should just force everyone on Vim and world would be more glorious and productive place.... right?

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by nailer »

SG- wrote: post #4
nailer wrote: post #2

Awesome. It's much easier to make Android (with it's massive app ecosystem) a desktop OS than it is than to build an app ecosystem for traditional Linux desktops. Interestingly enough it doesn't look like there's an installer - they want you to run it from USB for now.

Except that massive app ecosystem is designed for small screen phones and single window design. It also hasn't helped Windows Mobile at all with it's "massive" desktop ecosystem.

Not sure Windows is similar: Windows Phone has very few apps, Windows 8 desktop has very few 'modern' apps which can handle being distributed through an app store. Neither can leverage the other because there's nothing to leverage.

Re: RemixOS for PC released

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Post by b3lvedere »

lovelearning wrote: post #16

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

Nope. I also tried it on a ESXi 5.5 . The only small notification i see is that it cannot determine the USB writing speed and then it reboots again. So perhaps because it doesn't have write access.
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