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by SapporoChris 1082 days ago
Windows Subsystem for Android appears to be for Windows 11. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

This appears to include Windows 10: https://play.google.com/googleplaygames#section-faqs "To participate in the beta, your PC must meet these minimum requirements:

Windows 10 (v2004) Solid state drive (SSD) with 10 GB of available storage space IntelⓇ UHD Graphics 630 GPU or comparable 4 CPU physical cores (some games require an Intel CPU) 8 GB of RAM Windows admin account Hardware virtualization must be turned on"

But really, there's already a wealth of android emulators for Windows.

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There might be a wealth of emulators on PC, but they've seemed pretty sketchy for the ones I've seen.
The purpose of this release, from Google's point of view, is to displace BlueStacks. For as long as I remember, BlueStacks would sell developers all sorts of ecosystem toxic services, like triggering the emulators to download Google Play games to boost download counts.
The automation in bulestack and sorts are pretty great for time saving and farming rewards in Android games. It helps to skip the grinding and let u play the interesting bit. Not sure if google supports that
ASW is actually pretty bad on Win11. I've bypassed and side loaded normal stuff but it doesn't have Google play services so most things fail to properly function. Other than that it runs like a dog on a machine with a 5800x, 64gb ram, 6750x GPU. it's not really ready for prime time.