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Open Source Android X64

Discussion in 'Software' started by Arboreal, 11 Apr 2026.

  1. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    I was intrigued by a YT vid this morning showing how to put Android on an old 4th gen Optiplex and wondered if anyone here's had a dabble?

    I have a 4th gen NUC that could do media PC duty or wheel out the DeskMini A300 for more storage and GPU grunt.
     
  2. David

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    Is it through some kind of emulation layer/ bootloader type deal?
     
  3. Arboreal

    Arboreal Keeper of the Electric Currants

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    As far as I can tell you can do it a couple of ways.
    There's emulation in Windies and a direct install from a Rufus created USB stick.

    There's also BlissOS and PrimeOS, I haven't checked them out

    It's on Android-X86, I got the name wrong

    I'm hoping that Apple TV app can be put on it as our ancient Apple TV box is glacally slow

    Luckily I remembered the NUC as I was down a Lenovo Tiny M75Q rabbit hole earlier.
    I didn't kmow there were Ryzen APU Tinies, admittedly R5 3409GE is the most powerful one on gen 1.
    From memory, AM4 GPU performance doesn't get much better going from 3x00G to 4x00G and 5x00G, so not worth buying a £150+ version
     

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