Every home seems to have one: a laptop retired to a cupboard because it became too slow for modern Windows, yet too good to throw away. Around 2016, thousands of those machines around the world, including plenty in Latin America, got an unexpected second chance from an unlikely source. Remix OS, created by the Chinese company Jide Technology, was a free operating system that turned Android into a desktop platform, and it ran beautifully on hardware the mainstream industry had written off. A Free Download With a Big Idea The proposition was simple and generous. Anyone could download remix os…
Author: Anna Cernova
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