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They have a good plan. Need Linux? Come and use our system. Need Android? We serve that, too. Need Windows for legacy apps? Of course we have that, too. I just hope people don't fall for that.
As opposed to falling for what other option?
Linux with Windows VM using vGPU... I'll admit, Anbox or similar could use some work for getting Android apps working smoothly on Linux.
Wasn't Intel the only one who offered vGPU technology freely on consumer-grade hardware (I might be a bit out of touch though)? Also from my experience Intel's GVT-g is kind of finnicky and will occasionally just hang up the entire system and require a hard reboot (not even sysrq can save it). Also it's not available on Gen11 iGPUs and Intel doesn't plan to support them unfortunately [0].

> I'll admit, Anbox or similar could use some work for getting Android apps working smoothly on Linux.

There's also Waydroid [1] in case you are running Wayland and it has in general been a much more pleasant experience than Anbox for me. Their android image is also based on LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10) as opposed to Anbox's which is still on Android 7 IIRC?

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

[1] https://waydro.id/

This thread has a lot more on the current state of vGPU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28944426
This seems unnecessarily complicated. Installing Google Apps and Playstore on Amazon Fire is just a few APKs. Doesn't Windows not let you sideload apks with adb?
Some apps require "Google play services" to function correctly, which can't be sideloaded without root via adb. Usually you download OpenGapps and flash it from a recovery.
Very good point.

But from reading a bit of the script I think what this wants to do is install play services and google apps as "system" apps that have more privileges than normal apps. I'm not sure if one can do that with adb.