I'd rather have a linux OS on the phone that can run Android apps.
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Irrelevant but the embed thumbnail terrifies me. why is the android fuzzy
Smells like they might be preparing to make their own portable console running Android.
We already have termux for that, and on a rooted device you could do pretty much anything. This is pointless
Yeah but I'm unwilling to root my device, so hopefully this will allow me to do some cool stuff too.
Termux already does a lot of cool stuff without root. Makes due a decent ssh client in a pinch.
Interesting... but well.. Android isn't rooted, so will it use chroot or something like that? Or it will use a whole another kernel, complete VM?
Well, the summary pasted in the post mentions "VM" about a dozen times
That's a bad move of Google, this has no reason at all!
Chroot/docker will use a more practical way to run Linux, as Android is just a Linux distro, why bother with running a whole another kernel!
does this mean more steam support for android ?
This seems as much about converging Android and ChromeOS as anything.
I've never tried it myself, but I think you can run full Linux VMs on Pixel phones already. A quick search brings up https://www.xda-developers.com/nestbox-hands-on/
Anyone have experience with this or similar options? Personally I've never used anything more advanced than Termux (which is lean and super cool, but not a full-blown VM).
You can pretty much chroot into a full debian installation, and even make kernel calls higher than that natively supported by your phone through proot
. It's a weird time to be alive.
This could be really interesting. I don't personally see a use case for me to run Linux apps on Android. I could see myself running android apps on Linux though. Pretty happy to see this.
Much more appealing to me is running Android apps on Linux officially. I don't want to use Android as my main system, but I sure as heck would love to have one or two Android apps available on my Linux Machines.
wayDroid does let you do that, in a fairly lightweight way (uses Linux namespaces iirc, similar to lxc.
It's still not full native, which would be even nicer. I play droidfish on my Linux machines using it.
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I'm glad it worked for you, it borked the fuck out of my system 🤣
It also borked the eff out of my system too, and I'm still seeing traces of its lefotver desktop files after uninstallation