There are icons on the desktop, a Start Menu when you click bottom left, a Windows 10-style notifications panel if you click bottom right.Īpp windows are designed with the mouse in mind. Remix OS opens with a very Windows-like desktop. (If you're using VirtualBox and it hangs after you select Guest Mode, make sure you've created your virtual machine based on 64-bit Linux.) There's the usual LiveCD procedure: choose Guest Mode, select your keyboard type (there's only US and Chinese, unfortunately), click Next to agree to the licence and click Start. Burn it to disc, make a bootable USB stick or plug it into VirtualBox and you should be able to boot from it on most PCs. If you're happy to try it anyway, the download gets you an ISO image.
And there's no Play Store included, which means it takes a little more work than usual to install your favourite apps.
It's an alpha, officially flagged as a 'developer' edition, so problems are to be expected. While that sounds interesting, there are catches. Remix OS for PC is a lightweight fork of Android KitKat, optimised for desktop use, which you can run from a USB stick or virtual machine.