>What is Remix OS? Where do I download it?
Remix OS is a fork of Android x86 that is modded for better usability with mice and touchpads. It's designed to run on your PC.
http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc
>Where do I get Google Play and gapps?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xig55qb7yd41iwq/GMSInstaller.apk?dl=0
1. Download GMSInstaller.apk
2. Install APK file and run it.
3. Click on "One-click to install Google Services" (this will automatically download google play services).
4. Clear the data for google Google Services and Playstore or you'll have problems getting apps.
>How do I root this?
http://pastebin.com/AgMvWC89
>Isn't this Chrome OS?
It looks like Chrome OS but it doesn't have the horrible bullshit lock-in and shitty web apps.
>What's the difference between Android x86 and this?
Video of Android x86
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD40L1tTzLM&src_vid=PG1_2MDYMtk&annotation_id=33f7a4cd-a3fe-4ea3-8c4e-4a1616e6fa4d&feature=cards
Video of Remix OS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLWJcnE7ywc
>Won't they get sued by Google?
Remix OS has already existed for more than a year, raised over a million dollars over two kickstarters, and sold devices with Remix OS on it. So probably not.
>Will this run on my Mac?
YES.
>What's the deal with the dumb benchmark on their website?
Who ever made that was a retard.
>Is this the year of the Linux desktop?
YES.
This sucks
I have it installed on a USB 3.0 stick on a desktop with an ocd 4690k and it still lags to fucking hell. It's like using a 2012 midranger phone again.
Why run Android on a PC? Just look at these benchmarks!
>>52514865
>doesn't run on amd processors or graphics cards
Fucking dropped.
>>52514917
No lag here but it's installed to my pc's hard drive.
>>52514947
That's what you deserve for buying AMD.
The shilling is real.
The EULA flat out says that if you install this OS, then you waive OWNERSHIP of all your files. Let's also not forget that you agree to not say anything bad about the Chinese government.
Now fuck off.
>>52514996
They got rid of that for the International version. That's only the Chinese version now.
Doing a great job violating the Apache License and the GPL!
>>52514865
fuck Remix OS. It ruins everything that Open Source / Linux is about in the first place.
>>52514941
>High end older hardware beats the greatest phone processors out there
Wow, who would have guessed
>>52515151
Stallman tried to save the normies but they didn't listen. This is the result.
>>52514971
>that's what you deserve for buying AMD
Funny thing is I didn't even buy it. It was given to me by a friend who upgraded his laptop.
Fortunately for me there are better distros out there than this piece of shit :')
>>52515234
>willingly uses a toaster as a computer
>>52515316
>turion x2
>dedicated gpu
>peaks at 71 degrees
>toaster
>Running a mobile OS in desktop
>>52516200
>implying this isn't exactly what the future has in store for us
>>52516331
>Implying it is
>>52514865
Hopefully we'll see some useful posts in this thread, last one was pretty shit tbqh.
You can root Remix OS in windows too, but I'm too lazy to make a guide.. just know that you need an EXT4 driver (eg. Ext2Fsd) to open system.img, then mount it with whatever program you have, I already said before I use OSFMount but there's probably something better, also since you have the EXT4 driver you can open and edit data.img too as you wish, you can transfer files from a Windows system to Remix OS easily (pic related).
Anyways, any suggestions to sync your phone with Remix OS? I've plenty of apps on my Android phone that I wanted to try on PC but I don't really want to go through the trouble of reinstalling and reupdating them all, losting all my progress in the process. Any ideas?
>>52516423
It's already begun
>>52516585
You might be able to use Titanium Backup to restore all of the apps and app data from your phone
>>52516640
Well I was gonna try that but man, it requires quite a bit of authorizations, I don't really feel like installing it. Maybe is there anything similar on F-Droid?
>>52516599
Shill ubuntu then
Also, it's the desktop OS taking over mobile, not the other way around
>>52516731
Try oandbackup on F droid
>>52516909
looks nice, running a backup right now.. if it works it will solve lots of problems, for me at least.
>shit on osx and apple
>steal there designs for every single pos netbook and laptop
kk senpai
kek, shit storm incoming
>>52517293
>apple
who keeps shilling this shit, /g/?
is it YOU?
It's not even MM based. Meanwhile, I'll enjoy MM 6.0.1 on my Nexus 7 2013 still.
>>52514865
Go away with your stolen, GPL license violating, data stealing crap
>>52514865
>hjHkKDyM
Remix OS is for cunts
>>52517786
>hjHkKDyM
Is this a super secret code?
>>52517927
>secret code
kek probably a swapped copy and paste, see:
>>52513295
>>52514865
>It will run on an old netbook?
No
What's the point of this shit?
>>52514865
Stop shilling this stupid horseshit. At least you fucks learned to hire someone to manage this shit for you instead of writing Jaspreet-core english posts about "o no it has of leak!", and now are trying to sell us on using a fucking mobile OS on desktops, as if that's a great idea.
>>52518166
If it wasn't terrible it would have some applications.
I'll probably just get some android box like a nexus player instead.
>>52518339
>nexus player
are the specs any better than a phone though?
>>52514865
you should also include a link to your EULA in your "general"
buy ad space so i can block it, fucking chink
>>52518461
No, it's just the guts of a phone in a box.
>>52514865
Why didn't Google make their own Android for PC? For "free"? They could've take advantage of Win 8's gigantic failure too.
>>52518549
Because they wanted people to use Chrome OS.
From the OP.
>It looks like Chrome OS but it doesn't have the horrible bullshit lock-in and shitty web apps.
>>52518166
>>52518487
Just filter remix os and go back to your "technology" desktop threads.
>>52518607
That was and still is a moronic idea.
>>52518607
>Because they wanted people to use Chrome OS.
it doesn't even support android apps, they should have just reskinned normal android and then fixed it to run with mouse and keyboard on pc.
>>52518738
>it doesn't even support android app
The fuck? Then it can't do anything at all. What's the point?
>>52518711
>>52518738
>>52518820
Google didn't want users to have the same freedom they do on Android. They wanted to lock people to their proprietary web apps and milk them with cloud services and data mining.
>>52518863
Oh wait, are we talking about Chrome OS? Sorry I thought you meant remix OS couldnt run android apps.
>>52518820
I remember an anon saying there's some kind of emulator for chrome but it can barely run a bunch of kiddie games.
>>52517293
>there
kill yourself
is an USB 3.0 mandatory? I don't have any with 8GB
>>52519832
USB 2 worked for me.
>>52519832
I'd say it's necessary, but it's not mandatory, though USB 2.0 takes like a hour and half for Remix OS to start the first time in resident mode, the OS needs at least 8GB because just the system image plus the data image take over 6GB.
You should try installing it on your HDD if you don't have an USB 3.0 drive with at least 8GB, there're guides to do it, you can unlock the 4GB space limit too.
>use and build upon GPL software
>use GPL software as your software's base
>"sorry, no source"
??????????
>>52518738
>>52518863
Android OS is bloated and runs slower then chrome OS because of the Java shit built in. Some android apps works fine in chrome os when compiled and installed with the ARC extension.
>>52521221
Chrome OS can only run 1 app at a time
>>52521041
MPL > all
Has someone succeeded to run it in VirtualBox. I tried everything. Stuck on detecting Android-x86
>>52523169
Try VMware or QEMU. I've had VirtualBox fuck up with new operating systems in the past.
Whats the reason to use Remix OS?
>no root
>closed source
>spyware
>>52514865
>google play services
not even once
>>52523662
None. OP is either a dev or a shilling troll... the typical /g/ user
>>52523662
Wait I thought you could root it?
Hope to God we get something like Replicant on this. Libre inexpensive computing would be a miracle.
>>52514865
>Violates GPL
See this.
>>52517400
>TOS says you can't say anything bad about china
into the >>>/trash/ it goes
trying to install this on a hard drive
Got partitions with lvm
In the physical partition there are a couple logical ones. Made them smaller, but can't figure out how to make their physical partition smaller to make a new one for remix. What do?
>>52514865
Their logo reminds me too much of the General Electric logo...
>>52514941
Wow an i7 shits on phone processors!
>>52526405
That bench is Flawed. The i7 should be at least 50 times more powerful
>>52514865
FUCK OFF
If you're going to use anything like that use Phoenix OS
>>52526569
>Phoenix OS
Literally, why? how is that different than Remix? is it open source?
>>52526569
>>52527468
Kek, Phoenix OS is an entire level worse. It's also proprietary, comes from China, and no one knows anything about the devs. They just fucking appeared out of no where and started shilling on the remix forums. Phoenix is more likely to be a botnet than remix.
>>52515112
>>52517620
>>52521041
>>52524595
Holy shit, they're actually doing something to fix the problem
>>52527853
Whoa that was fucking fast.
>>52524595
>http://www.jide.com/en/about
>Founds: Jeremy, Ben and David
>sounds like stereotypical white dudes
>scroll down a bit, they're all asian
Maybe there's truth to this claim after all.
>>52527688
>They just fucking appeared out of no where and started shilling on the remix forums
I did notice that.. the forum mods are kida slacking it seems.
Can i get this running on my t420 thinkpad?
>>52528266
If you're a minority in the west, you should use a white person's name to be more respected. If you're talking about the Chinese government eula, see
>>52515031
>>52515031
>That's only the Chinese version now.
I thought something was strange with that part of the EULA. China will always be China I guess.
>>52527853
How could you know enough about programming to build an OS like this, yet not understand the GPL?
>>52528713
It's called being Chinese. They don't have laws there.
>>52528361
Bump
>>52514865
>not rooted by default
T R A S H
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>>52528361
>>52528810
If it's 64 bit and has Intel's graphics then it probably works.
>>52528866
I can confirm it works with nvidia gpu too.
>>52528850
it's literally like Android.
>>52514865
so can I install it without problem on my PC now?
so now i can run word in wine.apk through a apk emulator emulating apks for a linux emulator?
how fucking many FPS does it get for league of legends or im not installing
>>52529008
this is more like a fork of android than an emulator, word was released for android by the way, you can install it directly from the official apk.
>>52528866
That's the thing, i tried running it, and it made me load it to a flash drive and my read and write speeds aren't fast enough (poorfag)and it kept crashing
>>52529300
How does it crash? at the boot loader or after the android logo? I went through some annoying troubleshooting to get it working properly on my system too but it looks good now (except it's laggy as hell), I'm using USB3 16Gb stick on a dektop with i5 4460 and GF GT 630.
>>52529388
it eventually started up after crashing 10 times where it said "upgrading software" or something along those lines, and when it finally started up the browser wouldn't load anything and would just crash
>>52514865
Fuck off shilling chinkOS botnet bollocks.
Die in a fire.
>>52529444
Resident mode right? it's probably like you said the speed is too low, when I tried booting from my USB2 stick I gave up because it didn't even manage to go past the "please be patient" stage, before even booting android, if I waited a hour or two it mgiht have been able to (that's basically the stage when the system creates the data.img file which is a 4GB EXT4 partition and USB2 write speed is 2-3 MB/s at best so it takes a lot of time if it goes well).
The only choices are: use an USB3 stick on USB3 port or try installing the OS on your HDD/SSD.
Here is a guide by the way: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/remix-os-for-pc/bvYa1PWQHP8/VImcJ4CSAQAJ
>>52514865
Can I VM this shitty OS to test what the fuzz is all about?
>>52529991
On Linux yes you can in qemu, people posted some configurations in an older thread:
>>52380879image="Remix_OS_for_PC_64_B2016011201_Alpha.iso"
kvm -cdrom "$image" -m 2048 -machine pc-q35-2.5 -smp cpus=2
>>52381396iso="Remix_OS_for_PC_64_B2016011201_Alpha.iso"
kvm -cdrom "$iso" -m 2048 -machine q35 -smp cpus=2 -vga std -cpu host
>>52381593sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -smp 4 -m 2G -cdrom Remix_OS_for_PC_64_B2016011201_Alpha.iso -enable-kvm
I tried to get it running on windows but no luck so far.
>>52529991
i tried with VB and i couldn't
>>What's the difference between Android x86 and this?
Video of Android x86
Video of Remix OS
Um, did you forget to write at least one sentence? I still don't understand why I should use remixOS when it's just a shitty fork of Android x86. What did they even change? It has different graphics?
>>52514971
>That's what you deserve for buying AMD.
No shit OS? Thank you anon
>>52530333
basically it's just android with DE.
>>52530392
What's DE?
>>52514865
Do not want but to be honest this is all normal people need and would be nice if I was just a normal facebooker/netflixer type of person.
>>52530410
Desktop environment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
Too bad it doesn't support custom launchers, nova was installed too but when I try to run it shows the message "no custom launchers supported" but it's probably something that can be bypassed in the future, they're going to release some code on github so that should help a bit for adding more rice and other shit to this os.
>>What's the difference between Android x86 and this?.
Android x86 runs on old netbooks, Remix does not
>>52514971
>buying into the Intel/nvidia superjew monopoly
