Last year, Jide launched the Remix Mini, a special hardware to run the Remix OS, but now the company has decided to make the operating system available free of charge for anyone looking to run on their x86 machine, be it a laptop or a desktop..
The new Remix OS finally delivers a new Android PC experience.
The alpha build is available as a 700MB ISO, which the company recommends you run from a “USB 3.0 flash drive that supports FAT32 format, with a minimum capacity of 8GB and a recommended writing speed of 20MB/s”.
Remix OS itself is quite mature, despite being only at its 2.0 version. There’s some irony that Remix OS is the brainchild of three ex-Google engineers – Jeremy Chau, Ben Luk, and David Ko – who under the corporate name Jide Technology produced Remix OS to provide Android’s ecosystem and technology in a package reminiscent of a desktop operating system.
A third option is to store the OS on a USB stick, meaning that you can make any computer your own. The point of having this early of a version is to gather help from the community of developers and users to help optimize the software for use on PC. The Remix OS is compatible with 64-bit CPU’s.
In Windows 10 sometimes it costs a little more to make a full reset, but you can force from the Options Updates and Security Recovery Advanced Home.
While most people with a half-decent computer will look at Remix OS as a curiosity, the operating system has the potential to find popularity in the developing world. It has all of the same things including Play Store access, but with the addition of a taskbar, a start button, and of course, a multi-window feature that allows you to keep open and interact with multiple apps at once without having to move between screens. The difference being that your data and apps will be saved on the USB drive in Resident mode.
These are the steps in installing and setting up Remix OS 2.0 on your USB stick. If Remix OS devs didn’t say anything, you couldn’t tell that it’s based on Android-x86 just from its looks. If you just want an easy way to run Android apps on your PC then you’re still better off with an emulator.
It wasn’t long ago when Remix OS 2.0 was leaked online, ahead of the official launch.
However, you can download and install apps on your own from APK Mirror.
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