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Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (12 children)

If you currently use Android apps from the Amazon Appstore, then you’ll continue to have access to these past the support cutoff date, but you won’t be able to download any new ones once Microsoft makes its Android subsystem end of life next year. On March 6th (tomorrow), Windows 11 users will no longer be able to search for Amazon Appstore or associated Android apps from the Microsoft Store.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I have not looked for stats but I'd love to see what the actual usage of the Microsoft Store is. I know I have never found a use for it and went as far as disabling the MS Store via GPO because I got tired of seeing it and for learning experience.

I have never found a reason, for myself, where I would need to use the MS Store... ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I use it for a couple utilities since they do auto-update. I also used to install Firefox and Discord from there since it's faster than going to the website and downloading the installer manually but now with winget, I found that more convenient.

It seems important for as I've seen it being used in updating some system components so disabling it outright might not be a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why not use winget or chocolatey instead? They allow for auto updates and have much wider library. Winget can even pull from msstore if necessary. There's even a convenient WingetUI that consolidates them and others (winget, choco, scoop, npm, .net, pip, etc.) to a single app manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I already mentioned that I am. My only issue with winget is that it doesn't update automatically, you need to do it manually and the list of updates includes a lot of apps that you didn't install through winget sometimes so it becomes a pain to exclude some apps. Winget UI seems interesting but I personally find it quite ugly.

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