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i can upload an instagram reel from Windows oh you bet i can and it's not

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the only thing i can do either the preview for amazon app store for Windows

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11 aka Windows subsystem for Android is finally upon us so we're going to show

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you how it works what it looks like and some really cool ways Android makes your

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how does this even work the Android today runs primarily on ARM

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processors whereas Windows primarily runs on x86

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Android x86 is sort of a thing but only sort of

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with that in mind it's unsurprising that on pcs most apps are going to be running

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in an ARM emulator that microsoft says is provided by Intel bridge technology

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don't worry though it'll still run on AMD systems and if you're one of the

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dozens of people running Windows 11 on ARM hardware those apps will run

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natively as well just like on an m1 mac

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most of us are stuck with the emulator for now so as for the performance impact

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of that geekbench can give us a glimpse

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it's clear that the CPU is being held back by overhead here compared to the

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native performance but it's not bad all things considered it's 50 higher than

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the next best Android device's single core performance and more than double

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that device's multi-core performance though if you're rocking that min spec

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8th gen core i3 you'll probably want to stick to lighter tasks unlike the CPU

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opengl the API that Android uses to accelerate 3d graphics doesn't need to

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be emulated and you have the option of dynamically picking a GPU for running

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Android apps as long as everything is relatively new there shouldn't be any

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trouble running most apps although 4x anti-aliasing is enabled by default so

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gaming performance may not be amazing on older integrated graphics unless you

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mess with the developer mode it's worth mentioning that even with a

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good GPU a min spec CPU may still lag

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behind if you're trying to play an ARM-based game the Android version of

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retroarch nets horrible performance results running super mario world on

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snes9x at less than half the speed of native and the increased latency of the

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threaded video option is required for frame rates over 30. this isn't

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indicative of every Android game but it suggests that you might want to stick

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with alternatives like bluestacks or nox if you're looking to phone some noobs

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running smartphones the rest of the subsystem environment

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sets aside 6 gigs of RAM and has its own sandboxed storage you can't access the

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files inside Android directly from within Windows or vice versa but there

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is a file browser within the virtual machine if you sideload an app that lets

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you transfer files i used ftp then you can get around this limitation

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and if you sideload a launcher you'll see that there's more stock apps in here

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too like a camera contacts and the standard Android settings app where we

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can confirm we're actually running Android 11. this is pretty interesting because the

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other Android emulators you can download like bluestacks and knox all run either

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Android 7 or 9. i mean it is kind of fitting for Windows 11 to be running

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Android 11 so but what was that about side loading i

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just said yeah see up here in america's hat

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we're not allowed to use the amazon app store on Windows yet

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fortunately there's a toggle right there in the settings app for the Android

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subsystem to enable developer mode where you can access adb or Android debug

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bridge using the Android sdk you can install apps uninstall apps and debug

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apps and any apps you side load will show up in the start menu like usual

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unless you're installing google frameworks or something to try to get the play store

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running i couldn't but it's only a matter of

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time and it's time you got a new caltripper pillow from ltdstore.com the extra

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support really helps with those long sofa sessions you know

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because of the lack of support for google services however remember

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microsoft is using the amazon app store you're limited in the apps that you're

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able to install and the features you're able to use

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while chrome and youtube for example install and run you can't sign in and

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the same will be true of anything else that uses the google account manager

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where some simply won't run at all and beyond google services games that

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use their own installers like fortnite straight up refuse to install sometimes

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it turns out there's a reason why microsoft has been so careful with how

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and when they rolled out subsystem for Android with all these caveats it's fair to ask

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why bother in my mind there are three reasons

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convenience preference and cost you have way more options for two-factor

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authentication via Android than on Windows for example and popping open an

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app whenever you need to get 2fa instead of unlocking your phone to do the same

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thing is a pretty significant time savings

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there are also apps that only have mobile options like some restaurants

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have mobile ordering but not online ordering and smart tvs will often have

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apps to control them that just aren't available on pc

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and then there are things that you could run on pc but you just might prefer the

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experience on Android especially when the alternative is simply a web page a

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proton mail comes to mind and then there's things like instagram where the desktop experience is straight up worse

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like it took until last year to be able to post and you still can't do reels

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it boggles the mind it makes about as much sense as how antec used to be the

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big dog back in the day and they just dropped the ball and disappeared get

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subscribed because we've got a whole video diving into what happened there

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as for cost maybe you've already bought the app on mobile and you don't want to

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buy it again on pc there's also a lot of free photo editing apps on mobile that

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just don't exist on desktop like photoshop express vsco snapseed all of

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these are powerful and free on a pc you'll probably have to pay your

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only free options are web apps like pixlr and native apps like which

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each have their own pros and cons mobile photo editors are often dead simple

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while getting good enough results and if you're already familiar with it on

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mobile you'll be familiar with it on subsystem for Android

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for your trouble you get dynamically resizable Windows that many apps

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actually already work with along with full native notifications including

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progress bars for downloads in apps like fdroid the keyboard and mouse are

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natively supported and well obviously there's thousands of apps out there to

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try out i'm honestly surprised at how seamless

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the integration is for the apps that do work and if microsoft has their way Android

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x86 apps might make a comeback to offer better performance and compatibility

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with the Android subsystem while it's not as smooth today as iOS

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apps on macOS and you're limited to the amazon app store unless you're into side

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loading it's a far more coherent experience than software like bluestacks

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can provide and if microsoft can give it the love it needs

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it may seriously help Windows 11 adoption in spite of the recently

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announced need for a microsoft account even on the pro version

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