Android on Windows

[Jeff Gaines]

Just spent half an hour searching the spare room for a laptop I could put
Win 11 on, finally found it, charged and booted it, set it updating etc.
etc.

While it was doing that I Googled how to install the Android sub-system to
discover MSFT is dropping support for it, back to the cupboard it goes....

[SH]

Post by Jeff Gaines
Just spent half an hour searching the spare room for a laptop I could
put Win 11 on, finally found it, charged and booted it, set it updating
etc. etc.
While it was doing that I Googled how to install the Android sub-system
to discover MSFT is dropping support for it, back to the cupboard it
goes....

Have a look at Bluestacks.... :-) from the person that gave you Ventoy....

ALso Ninite is a real time saver!

[SH]

Post by Jeff Gaines
Just spent half an hour searching the spare room for a laptop I could
put Win 11 on, finally found it, charged and booted it, set it
updating etc. etc.
While it was doing that I Googled how to install the Android
sub-system to discover MSFT is dropping support for it, back to the
cupboard it goes....

Have a look at Bluestacks.... :-)   from the person that gave you
Ventoy....
ALso Ninite is a real time saver!

and this one:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-started-android-apps-windows-11

[Jeff Gaines]

Post by SH

Just spent half an hour searching the spare room for a laptop I could put
Win 11 on, finally found it, charged and booted it, set it updating etc.
etc.
While it was doing that I Googled how to install the Android sub-system
to discover MSFT is dropping support for it, back to the cupboard it
goes....

Have a look at Bluestacks.... :-)   from the person that gave you
Ventoy....
ALso Ninite is a real time saver!

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-started-android-apps-windows-11

Many thanks SH :-)

More toys to play with!

I found Bluestacks and got it working on my Win 10 laptop, Bubble Buster
and the Yamaha AV Controller run fine. I just used the AV Controller to
switch the radio from streaming my car music from the NAS to streaming
Mellow Magic over the Internet!

I do wonder why today's programmers use black backgrounds. I have been
trying out VST hosts recently and they're all black background with
dreadful fonts. The original promise of Windows was you set up a colour
scheme that suited you and all apps would inherit it.

Thanks again!

[Daniel James]

Post by Jeff Gaines
I do wonder why today's programmers use black backgrounds. I have been
trying out VST hosts recently and they're all black background with
dreadful fonts.

It's called "Dark mode". It's terribly trendy and terrible looking.

Post by Jeff Gaines
The original promise of Windows was you set up a colour scheme that
suited you and all apps would inherit it.

That's right. I can only think that today's software design is all
driven by the considerations of Android and fruity devices, which don't
have the same degree of customizability at system level.

I can remember working with one guy, in the early 1980s, who set his
MS-DOS PC to use coloured text on a white (might have been grey)
background because it was "easier to read" and "caused less eye strain"
-- the same claims that are being made now for Dark mode. The wheel
turns ...

Of course, the MS-DOS "Light mode" display on an IBM CGA adapter
flickered like crazy whenever the screen scrolled and caused far more
eye strain than light-on-dark.