• Microsoft ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
  • WSA designed to run Android apps from Amazon Appstore on Windows 11
  • Support for WSA will end on March 5, 2025; no impact on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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    8 months ago

    If they hadn’t locked into amazon appstore, I feel like they could have made it work.

    Either cough up money for Playstore or better yet just make windows store compatible with android and easier to use.

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      8 months ago

      I mean, Waydroid works fine with Aurorastore and even Playstore. Sure that may break, but all that capitalist “we buy licenses” BS of course costs money

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    8 months ago

    Was it ever actually supported? I was waiting for it to be ready to switch to Windows 11 since android emulators are all extremely heavy, I just remember it being on a preview version.

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      8 months ago

      It worked well. But only with Amazon AppStore apps, so nothing useful

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    8 months ago

    Nice, I actually used this to make a nice time of reading manga and comics on my surface with tachiyomi. Now I have to find a different workflow.

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          8 months ago

          I’ve been using BlueStacks. How do those compare to BlueStacks?

          I’m guessing at the very least they have less ads than blue stacks, lol.

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            8 months ago

            Bluestacks is full of Ads and junk. But it has actual additions to make it work with a keyboard. Waydroid wasnt able to register multi-input for me, which makes basically any game unplayable.

            But the android app smart autoclicker is the perfect replacement for bluestacks things.

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          8 months ago

          BlissOS Zenith didnt boot for me poorly, and other versions are slightly outdated. But I will try another one.

          Waydroidnruns a rootful LXD container I think, which is not isolated at all. An OCI image ran through Podman would be way better.