Bluestacks is filth - any alternatives?

[stigzler]

Seriously - Bluestacks is like a grubby con man who steals your grandma's life savings whilst wearing cheap aftershave and hiding some unseemly sexual proclivities. [soz - just offloading!]

Really:

Adverts all over the place? Check

Pop-up's galore? Check

Make it really difficult to kill their app from front ends? Check (and bonus points for making it a "Boss Key")

And worst of all: leaving an application running in the background once you've quite the emulator? Check 

That last one made me uninstall this right away. The people who make this and profit from it are NOT part of the emulation community,.  They need to rot in hell. 

Anyways, rant over. Question being, of course:

Are there any other alternatives to Bluestacks for android emulation on windows 11 machines?

Maybe I should bill Bluestacks for the 2 hours of my life I wont get back. 

[stigzler]

Spoiler

Nemind. Answered my own question. Not sure if it's the best but I think it's the trashy side of emulation this. I'm trying out Nox and works well and a lot less bloated than Bluestacks. However, there still needs to be some risks associated with it, but this is a helpful guide to de-bloat/de-mine:

https://gist.github.com/Log1x/12d330ef7685d6fbc611d1d57efb5c29

Android emulation is the Skegness of this wonderful hobby.

EDIT: DO NOT DOWNLAOD NOX PLAYER - IT'S JUST AS BAD (DOWNLOADED MCAFFEE WITHOUT ASKING AND CANNOT UNINSTALL). GOD THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THESE EMUS REALLY SHOULD BE SHOT.

Edited Friday at 10:13 AM by stigzler

[trueanimus]

i LOVE LdPlayer 9

So much faster and more compatable than bluestacks or anything i have found.

 

[stigzler]

And malware free do you know given the form of these emus to date?

EDIT: Looks just as bad. When first clicked on the official link, I got just a line of text saying "what are you doing?" Then clicked again and got the official site (full of gaudy attract the moths graphics). Also, reddit post here saying it's full of adware etc. Nope, nope, nope. Think I'm just going to have to pass on android emulation (sadly, as needed it for a wipeout game to complete my collection). F**k android.

 

 

Edited Friday at 10:17 AM by stigzler