Is there a good way to run android apps on desktop?
Windows 11 delenda est. Also inb4 "don't".
I feel like bluestacks used to be better but it gives off weird scuffed fremium windows software stink now. What's the best way to run Android apps on an x86-64 computer?
Android apps appear to run natively on Windows (so they're not in a VM looking box, they behave like Windows apps). They don't have access to the local file system, they have access to their own file system, just like using a phone.
The easiest way to move files in/out is to use a file manager that can access SMB shares (like MiXplorer), or use Syncthing on the desktop and in the Subsystem, and sync a folder on the desktop.
Think you're talking past each other: [thing] delenda est is common parlance here on Hexbear as a general term of disparagement (comes from Carthago delenda est), so by putting that in the post OP was indicating she didn't want any solutions that require Windows 11.
That being said, apparently there are ways to get WSA to work on Windows 10: see WSAPatch and the script mentioned here which purports to automate a lot of the WSAPatch steps. I can't vouch for them at all, so do your due diligence and all that before proceeding.