Bliss OS, an 'Android variant' for an x86 PC is worth a try

As one of the most commonly used operating system platforms in the world, Android is probably a name unfamiliar to any technology user. Although developed by Google for use on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, but in fact, this operating system can be found on millions of electronic devices speaking them, which even even works efficiently thanks to the flexible adaptability inherent in an open source platform.

Microsoft is said to be actively supporting Android apps for Windows 10 through the Windows Subsystem for Linux utility, while the open source developer community has in fact been working for years to build support. Android support on x86 platforms. The Android-x86 project is the most famous effort led by the open source community to bring Android to the PC world, with the most notable achievement being Bliss OS.

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Bliss OS is an open source operating system for PC, developed by Bliss Family of ROMs or Team Bliss, with the goal of providing computer users with the top gadgets and features of Android. This operating system is developed based on Android, completely free, and can be used by Windows computers, Linux, Chromebooks and even tablets. Bliss OS also works as an Android emulator for PC. If you like your PC to have features only available on Android, then Bliss OS is a platform worth the experience. Team Bliss recently updated Bliss OS to versions 11.12 and 11.13, supports ARM64 and Magisk emulators.

The development team has announced the next release of builds on the Bliss ROMs forum. Among them, the most important new addition is probably the ARM64 houdini from Chrome OS 86, which refers to the ARM translation layer for x86 used by Chrome OS to run ARM Android apps on a Chromebook. With this, most ARM64 Android apps should work fine, although there will still be some backlog with armeabi-v7a apps.

There's also the built-in Gearlock, a custom recovery replacement for Android-x86 builds that lets you swap out the included Linux kernel and Mesa 3D graphics library instantly in the event of a crash. try to be compatible. For example, you can configure alsa-audio presets to fix any possible audio-related issues. Finally, you can install topjohnwu's Magisk for root access and experience the plethora of modules available online.

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Last but not least, developer electrikjesus, member of Team Bliss has also revealed the first few details about the upcoming release of Bliss OS 14 based on Android 11. You can follow the posts. on the XDA forums for news on this major release.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 02 December 2020