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Android Apps Now Unofficially Able To Run On Any Major Desktop OS
An anonymous reader writes A developer who goes by the handle Vladikoff has tweaked Google's App Runtime for Chrome (ARC) to allow any Android app to run on any major desktop operating system, not just the handful announced last week which were also limited to Chrome OS. His tweaked version of ARC is re-packaged as ARChon. The install isn't very straightforward, and you have to be in developer mode on Chrome. But there's a support forum on reddit. The extension will work on any OS running the desktop version of Chrome 37 and up as long as the user also installs chromeos-apk, which converts raw Android app packages (APKs) to a Chrome extension. Ars Technica reports that apps run this way are buggy, fast, and crash often but expresses optimism for when Google officially "opens the floodgates on the Play Store, putting 1.3 million Android apps onto nearly every platform."
But I prefer using Windows because that's where all the premier software is found. MS Office, Adobe products, my engineering tools as well as the open source stuff. That and I'm used to it and actually enjoy it (Windows 7 anyway). Not all of us have horribly infected machines you know, and some of us like having machines that can hibernate properly (this particular laptop fails to complete a hibernation session in Ubuntu/Linux Mint because Linux is fucking RUBBISH as a desktop system).